Taxacom: Removals of offending scientific names

[Adolf Ceska]

All species of the fern genus GAGA share a repeated DNA sequence of G-A-G-A. Hence the name:

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Adolf

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From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom
Sent: June 22, 2023 3:43 AM
To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu; Paul van Rijckevorsel
Subject: Re: Taxacom: Removals of offending scientific names

 Here is a 2023 example of just how ridiculous zoological nomenclature is becoming: 
Abba new genusEtymology The genus-group name honours the Swedish pop group ABBA whose songs and subsequent musicals Mamma Mia! (2008) and Mamma Mia – Here We Go again! (2018), provided hours of entertainment for the authors.

Not that Abba are offensive (except to my musical ear), but really, for a journal called Evolutionary Systematics (Pensoft!), is this really appropriate? Perhaps the spider genus Abba can compete with the spider genus Pinkfloydia for the most fans! Personally, I'd go for the Floyd!
Stephen    On Thursday, 22 June 2023 at 10:31:33 pm NZST, Paul van Rijckevorsel via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 On 22-Jun-23 11:56, Mike Sadka via Taxacom wrote
> [...] I have rarely seen anyone suggest that the best way to deal with this [...] For example, using more local organism names as epithets [...].
>
> It might be that many current detractors would accept this as a reasonable compromise.
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See Prop. 209:
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