[Taxacom] most common species names

[Neal Evenhuis]

Ironically -- on the flipside (least common species names), one would expect uniquus to only have 1, but there are 2 ... and there are 9 "raris" ...

-Neal



On 1/19/12 5:32 PM, "Kenneth Kinman" <kennethkinman at webtv.net<mailto:kennethkinman at webtv.net>> scribbled the following tidbit:

Hi Michael,
      Interesting question.  I was a little surprised that the specific
name "gracilis" is as common as it is.  But on the other hand, I was not
surprised when searching for "alba", which may be almost as common if
one includes variants such as albus, albidus, etc.
              ------------Ken

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Michael Ohl wrote:
Hi,
while compiling some statistics on animal names, I tried to find the top
names, which are most common in zoology.
A quick taxon search in EOL revealed these numbers for names, which
immediately came to my mind and which might serve as estimates for the
true occurence:
minor: 5540 hits
major: 3384 hits
niger: 1341 hits
I am sure that there are other very common names. Any suggestions?
Cheers, Michael Ohl



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