[Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names

[Anders Warén]

There is nothing shorter than Io Lea, 1831, a freshwater gastropod.

Anders Warén

On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Pekka T. Lehtinen wrote:

> Donat Agosti wrote:
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>> 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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>> Donat
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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 !
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>     Pekka T. Lehtinen
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Anders Warén
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