Re: Lizard Frills and Chimeras

[Stanley Friesen <sarima@ix.netcom.com>]

At 12:38 AM 3/30/98 PST, Jaime Headden wrote:
><And why will the name Rahona be changed? Is there a previous 
>instance  of the specimen?>
>
>There's a butterfly with its name. Now, this should be interesting. 

Yep, so far, so good.  "Rahona" 1998 is a junior homonym of _Rahona_ 1975.
That makes it unavailable.

>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.

'Fraid not.  Junior homonymy is for all time.  Just because the senior
homonym is a junior synonym does not change anything.

> I'm not sure what the 
>rules are on this, though.
>
The rules are that "Rahona" 1998 is unusable, period.

[Any word on when the note replacing it will be published? - shouldn't take
long, about three or four sentences will satisfy all the requirements of
the Rules]


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