Taxacom: counts of generic names used for a species

David Campbell pleuronaia at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 15:53:48 CDT 2024


For all genus-level names, including misspellings, Anodonta anatina has an
impressive total:
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 10:04 AM Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Taxacomers,
>
> Has anyone ever compiled records of the maximum numbers of genera in the
> synonymy of a species?
>
> fred (inspired by iNaturalist rattling off the genera to which a
> photographed moth has been assigned)
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