Re: Lizard Frills and Chimeras

[Adam Yates <zooamy@zoo.latrobe.edu.au>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jaime Headden wrote:

> 
> There's a butterfly with its name. Now, this should be interesting. 
> Butterflies about in a great, vasta array of forms and names, and I find 
> it hard to belive, but some of those names could be redundant 
> themselves. *Rahona* (the butterfly) could be synonymous with another 
> butterfly, making the name available to science. I'm not sure what the 
> rules are on this, though.

Doesn't work that way. Even if a name is sunk in synonymy it is not an
available name. Synonyms are frequently reinstated as valid taxa, so it
would be far to confusing to allow the name to be available for other
taxa.

Adam Yates