[Taxacom] selling names to save the planet
Doug Yanega
dyanega at ucr.edu
Tue Sep 18 17:56:15 CDT 2007
2007
>I reckon, that not too much money is going back to taxonomy... In any
>case. Does someone know the smallprint of this naming? What happens if
>the species get synomymized, lets say a year after. Cash-back-guarantee??
No "guarantee" is necessary, obviously. Even a synonym has to be
cited in perpetuity; you are STILL immortalized, and - if push comes
to shove - all one has to do is point out that synonymies are not
formal nomenclatural acts, but merely opinions that one CAN choose to
ignore.
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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