[Taxacom] hemihomonymy revisited

Stephen Thorpe stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Mon Mar 1 18:02:09 CST 2010


following a discussion some while back on Taxacom, I have just started to create a category on Wikispecies for hemihomonyms, as defined by the previous Taxacom discussion (i.e., identical generic names governed by different Codes, e.g. zoological/botanical, like I found a Solenopsis (ant) crawling up the stem of a Solenopsis (plant)). However, I find that most definitions of hemihomonymy seem to refer to a different, within Code, phenomenon, whereby a genus name can be identical to a family group or higher name. Are there distinct names for these two distinct problems? Does hemihomonymy apply to both?

Stephen


      


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