Conventions for common names?

[Curtis Clark]

At 02:36 PM 8/22/2001, Byron J. Adams wrote:

>Are there any guidelines or "rules of thumb" for establishing common names
>for organisms that heretofore are known only by their scientific names?

Don't.

If nine-year-old boys can learn dinosaur names, growers can learn nematode
names.


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