[Taxacom] Fwd: Naming species to offend rival taxonomists

[Robin Leech]

The late Stanislaw Bleszynski, a crambid specialist from Poland, named a
genus.  He called it "La".
In the genus La, he described:
La cucaracha 
La golandrina
and other species names which I cannot recall. Some in Ottawa did not
approved of this sort of playing.
I think it was in the late 60s.  He was killed in a car accident somewhere
about 1970, maybe later. 
I met him when he was a post-doctorate fellow in Ottawa.

Robin

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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe
Sent: January-12-12 8:13 PM
To: Jim Croft; Taxacom
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Fwd: Naming species to offend rival taxonomists

name a new species of Hebejeebie after the brothers Gibb, and you've got
Hebejeebie beegeeorum ...



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From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
To: Taxacom <TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> 
Sent: Friday, 13 January 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] Fwd: Naming species to offend rival taxonomists

And Taxacomer Neal Evenhuis would have to be among the worst (and by
worst I mean best), and is the primary impediment in combining the
plant and animal codes of nomenclature.

Zoology can never recover from Pieza rhea, and his Pieza deresistans,
Phthiria relativitae. :)

(Won't even go near Carmenelectra shechisme!)

On the other side, I think the Kiwi botanists have still not forgiven
Taxacomer Michael Heads for Hebejeebie. :)

jim

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Robin Leech <releech at telus.net> wrote:
>
> In the entomology world, there are many entomologists who named species
> after their girlfriends, mistresses and such, usually as anagrams.

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