[Taxacom] Taxa, Taxon Names and Globally Unique Identifiers in Perspective - book chapter

[Dr. David Campbell]

Discussion on the uniqueness of names tends to emphasize those homonyms 
already forbidden in the codes (or similar cases not covered by the 
codes, e.g., the roughly ordinal-level Pulmonata in arachnids and in 
gastropods) and the cross-code duplications.  However, there is another 
issue, namely homonyms at different levels.  Nuculoidea is a genus of 
paleotaxodont bivalves, generally assigned to the superfamily 
Nuculoidea.  Trochoidea is perhaps even more confusing as it is a 
gastropod genus not even closely related to the gastropod superfamily 
Trochoidea.  

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Dr. David Campbell
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