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Re: Avaceratops
In a message dated 96-01-28 21:47:58 EST, endocrin@desktop.com.au (Graeme
Worth) writes:
>In a recent posting by Jeffery Martz he listed Judith River ceratopians,
>including Avaceratops lammersi. According to recent references I have seen,
>a) the species name is now lammersorum
Peter Dodson and I went around with this for a while. I think _lammersorum_
(genitive plural) is more appropriate because he honored the entire Lammers
family, but an ICZN bigwig said the singular ending _lammersi_ is all right,
because Dodson was honoring just one family. So it should remain _lammersi_
after all.
As I mentioned to Peter, had he named it _lammersorum_ first, I don't think
anyone would have insisted that he change it to _lammersi_.