Re: Registration

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>:

> One possibility I'll throw out there is to suggest adding prefixes to the
> younger names: perhaps "Phyto-" if covered by the ICBN, "Zoo-" if covered by
> the ICZN, and "Monero-" if covered by the BC. Thus the animal _Gastonia_
> could
> be converted as Zoogastonia, etc. Perhaps this is unnecessary, but it seems
> to
> me it would help speed up and smoothen out the conversion process.

I'd prefer compounding the name with -zoon or -phyton:  e.g. "Gastoniozoon".

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan