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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