[Taxacom] joke of the day!

Sat Mar 5 21:41:49 CST 2011

"unfortunately for these guys, Hawkeswoodidae was proposed with Amrishoonops as
type genus! As it is not formed from the stem of an available generic name, it
is not available"

Well, I just got a note from Norm Platnick that this thing isn't a new family, not even a new genus.

Frank

Dr Frank T. Krell 
Curator of Entomology 
Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Chair, ICZN ZooBank Committee
Department of Zoology 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 
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Denver, CO 80205-5798 USA 
Frank.Krell at dmns.org 
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