[Taxacom] Mixed roots

[Weakley, Alan]

I'm not sure about the Zoological Code, but for plants I think this falls into 5) "frowned on by purists, ideally to be avoided, but regularly done for the past 260 years and code-compliant"

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Michael A. Ivie
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Subject: [Taxacom] Mixed roots

OK, is mixing a Latin and a Greek root in an animal genus name 1) OK and nothing to worry about, 2) ugly but permissible, 3) wrong but what you gonna do, or 4) horribly wrong and disallowed?  As an editor should I ignore it or not?  I am hopeless on this stuff.

Mike

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