[Taxacom] FW: formation of zoological names with Mc, Mac, et

[Stephen Thorpe]

An LSID might be useful, but just don't confuse it with a name! It is not a substitute for a name, but may be useful IN ADDITION to a name...

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From: Markku Savela [msa at moth.iki.fi]
Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2009 7:50 p.m.
To: Stephen Thorpe
Cc: Tony.Rees at csiro.au; jim.croft at gmail.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] FW: formation of zoological names with Mc, Mac, et

> From: Stephen Thorpe <s.thorpe at auckland.ac.nz>

> I don't want to get rid of "namestrings", but I don't want to see
> them become overly complicated to the point even (AFD) where the
> whole bibliographic reference gets shoved into the "namestring"...

This latter type of namestring would be an LSID, and used like it.