[Taxacom] ICZN Opinion 105

[Stefan Könemann]

Dear Taxacom members,

I have a question regarding the nomenclature of  new species. We would 
like to name a new species (of Crustacea) after a person, who has 
supported research on this taxon. However, the family name is rather 
long, and we do not want to risk suppression of the name as has happened 
in the famous case of unusually long names assigned to Lake Baikal 
amphipods (ICZN Opinion 105).

Is there a way to find out *a priori* whether the epithet might be too 
long or not, thus avoiding suppression of the publication?


Stefan

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Stefan Koenemann
Interim Professor for Molecular Biology
Department of Biology
Science and Technology
University of Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
D-57068 Siegen
Germany
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