[Taxacom] most common species names

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

Hi Michael,
I would suspect that major/maior/majus/maius and minor/minus are more 
rarley used at the level of species, but more at the level of 
varieties, subspecies or subordinate variants, including many usages 
in historical works from before 1950. I am not sure if you discounted 
these in your EOL query.

You can try to screen the alphabetical lists of www.animalbase.org 
and see which names have most commonly been used in the 1700s. 
These might still be the most commonly used names today.

Francisco


University of Goettingen, Germany
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