Siphonophora a real test case (forget Galtonia)

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Jaime and Christian,
     Actually the problems go even beyond just botanists and zoologists 
fighting over generic names.   I would suggest to Jaime and others who want 
a more complicated "test case" to try taxon SIPHONOPHORA.
     Siphonophora is a genus of millipede, but it is also an Order 
(sometimes Subclass) of hydrozoan (for which the common name "siphonophore" 
is often used).  One might think the cnidarian ordinal name should win out 
(and rename the myriapod genus), but it's more complicated than that.  
Siphonophora the genus is the type of Family Siphonophoridae, and also Order 
Siphonophorida.
     So anyway, I wish the PhyloCode enthusiasts the best of luck in trying 
to decide whether to give Siphonophora to the marine zoologists or the 
entomologists.  Whichever way you go, you are going to make one side or the 
other unhappy.
                     ------Ken Kinman
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> From: christian farrell kammerer <cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu>
> Reply-To: cfkammer@midway.uchicago.edu
> To: Ken Kinman <kinman@hotmail.com>
> CC: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: GALTONIA (a test case?)
> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:05:02 -0600 (CST)
>
> This problem is larger than might be imagined, as there are probably 
> hundreds of overlapping genera between the ICZN and ICBN. And as you say 
> some of them won't be very clear cut--I think that both botanists and 
> malacologists would fight to the very death to maintain control of the 
> venerable genus _Ficus_.
>
> Sincerely,
> Christian Kammerer
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