[Taxacom] ICZN Opinion 105

[Roderic Page]

For the curious, ICZN Opinion 105 can be found here: http://biostor.org/reference/67131

Regards

Rod

On 17 May 2011, at 09:24, Stefan Könemann wrote:

> 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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