[Taxacom] Code enuiry

[Thomas Lammers]

I suspect that -ae- is meant to be a ligature, and probably relates to Latinizing a French surname. 

----- Original Message -----
From: John Steel <john.steel at botany.otago.ac.nz>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:14 pm
Subject: [Taxacom] Code enuiry
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

> Could someone explain the ICBN to me regarding the -aea ending 
> of the genus,
> Durvillaea, after the explorer D'Urville?  I would have 
> though that a simple
> -a would be correct.
> 
> Thanks for your time,  John Steel
> 
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 Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Curator of the Herbarium
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

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