[Taxacom] ICZN - gender of genus-group name ending in -oops

[Fred Schueler]

On 5/21/2016 11:03 AM, David Redei wrote:
>>
>> Changing names even the spelling has legal
> ramifications for some species under the Governments of some countries. It
>> depends on how they do their endangered species legislation. Changing the
>> name of a species that is scheduled on an endangered species Act in some
>> countries requires an Act of Parliament for it to continue being afforded
>> full legal protection.

> Sorry, I cannot follow this. Let's suppose there is A-us b-us, a protected
> species. You say that changing this name is undesirable because some
> national laws might needed to be changed.

* does this mean legislators and courts are too stupid to understand 
synonymy? In Canada there have been a number of provisions enacted that 
before passage legislation must take into consideration various classes 
of considerations, such as fiscal, well-being, and carbon balance, so 
maybe we need to agitate for including nomenclature among these - "this 
act protects the species in schedule A, whether known by the name 
listed, or by any synonymous name."

I'm told there was a case in the 1970s when a defense lawyer 
successfully argued that his client was smoking Cannabis ruderalis 
rather then C. sativa, which provoked Agriculture Canada into a big 
common garden study of variation in Cannabis.

fred.
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