[Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names

[Pekka T. Lehtinen]

Donat Agosti wrote:

>We are building a tool to extract taxonomic names from texts, and would like
>to know how long the shortest genus names are. Clearly, there is no A, AU?
>or at which length do they begin?
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>Thanks for any comments
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>Dr. Donat Agosti
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Hi,
    I don´t remember now the exact names of the combination, but I have 
long ago read about an Oriental bat having only two
letters both in the generic and in the specific name. Sorry that I was 
then enough interested about such records. This would anyway be a record 
for a binomen !

    Pekka T. Lehtinen