Taxacom: species name vs specific epithet

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 31-Dec-22 5:50 p.m., Richard Pyle via Taxacom wrote:

> In any case, while it is true that a binominal like "Homo sapiens" could function as a de-facto rank-less label to represent sets of organisms, this only works if the implied classification aspect (i.e., that organisms associated with the label "Homo sapiens" have any greater affinity with organisms associated with the label "Homo neanderthalensis", than they do with, say, organisms associated with the label "Pan troglodytes" -- or, for that matter, organisms associated with the label "Cocos nucifera") is abandoned.  Intuitively, I think most people would have a hard time abandoning this implied classification embedded within nomenclature, so while I certainly agree that one "could" do it that way, I'm not so sure they "should".

* yes, I think it is best to abandon the ideas proposed as a youthful 
extravagance in: Schueler, Frederick W., and James D.  Rising.  1972. 
The stability of A.O.U. Checklist names for North American birds, and 
uninominal nomenclature. 26th Ontario Universities Biological 
Conference, Toronto. Published as: Rising, James D., and Frederick W. 
Schueler.  1972.  How stable is binominal nomenclature?  Systematic 
Zoology 21:438-439.

fred.
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