[Taxacom] new whale genus name is preoccupied

[Stephen Thorpe]

perhaps not: http://www.ubio.org/NZ/search.php?search=Levathan&colname=on&colauthority=on&colcomments=on&colcategory=on&colpublication=on&vol=&page
looks like Koch's name may just have been an alternative original spelling, presumably declared incorrect by some first reviser?




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From: Kenneth Kinman <kennethkinman at webtv.net>
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Sent: Fri, 2 July, 2010 9:23:29 AM
Subject: [Taxacom] new whale genus name is preoccupied

Dear All,
? ? ? Today's issue of Nature describes a new genus of Miocene whale
named Leviathan.? However, don't get too attached to the name, because
it is preoccupied by Leviathan Koch, 1841, so the new whale genus will
have to be given a replacement name.? ? ? 
? ? ? --------Ken? ? ? 


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