Lists of Homonyms

[Scott Federhen]

Wolfgang Wuster wrote:
>
>Jan Bosselaers wrote:
>> Charles,
>>
>> I am not aware of an online source, but in November 1999 Scott Federhen
>> sent the following list to the list:
>>
>> Abrionia        - lizard and angiosperm
>
>The correct spelling for the lizard genus is actually Abronia, not
>AbrIonia. This may thus not be a real homonym.

Actually, the correct spelling for both genera is Abronia,
sorry for the typo.

<lizard>        Abronia Gray 1838
<angiosperm>    Abronia Juss. 1789

There is a binomial homonym from this pair as well:

<lizard>        Abronia aurita Cope 1868        (AF056588-9 &c.)
<angiosperm>    Abronia aurita Abrams 1905

Only one of these species is currently represented in the
sequence database - but we do have another example:

<conifer>       Agathis montana de Laubenfels   (U96478)
<wasp>          Agathis montana Shest.          (AJ302786)

:Scott federhen at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov