Temporal stability vs taxonomic something-or other

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Thu May 9 12:18:31 EDT 2002


At 10:02 AM 5/9/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>That is no problem with me.  I use many anglicized names for the butterflies
>I teach.  From Egleis Fritillary to Nastes Sulphur.  It helps bridge the
>gap.
>
>But I am very happy that many of the blues which we are familiar with are
>not tied tightly to scientific names.  I have a heck of a time each time I
>get a message from Norbert.  It seems that another has been changed.



>But as some have proposed trying to duplicate the taxonomy of all the
>butterflies with common names matching scientific names is really a problem.

Who did that? When? Where?
..........Chris

>Barb



 
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