Conventions for common names?

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From: "Curtis Clark" <jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Conventions for common names?


> 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.
> Curtis Clark                 http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/


MEGA double dittos on the don't and for the exact same reason.

Ron Gatrelle, president
International Lepidoptera Survey