David Marjanovic wrote:
<Whatever you want it to be.>
And this tells me that effective scientific discourse cannot occur on
the definition of the word "genus." Thanks, David, for proving what I
wrote earlier. This also tells me that I _can_ have 70 species of
*Varanus* (or more, many more) and it would be _right_, because (gosh
darnit) I'm worth it, and my CV will be so _HUGE_.
You see, the issue is cascading: A genus, a family, a species, are
all ranks. And in their pretense, systematists will at least adhere
to one of these as a recognition of true biological or taxonomic
utility (mostly the species, but sometimes the genus) and enforce
this through nomenclature, which must be then followed. So I cannot
really pretend that some taxa do not exist because my concept
structure is different from theirs. Note how the quoted premise does
not benefit science?