[Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names

[Maarten Christenhusz]

So two letters is the shortest generic name, but what would be the maximum?

By the way, a while ago someone posted a question about the what would be the pollinators of Amborella. Does anyone know the answer?

Maarten Christenhusz

----- Original Message -----
From: Anders Warén <anders.waren at nrm.se>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:28 pm
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names

> 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:
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for any comments
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> >> Donat
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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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