Re: Horner and Goodwin on Triceratops

[Andreas Johansson <andreasj@gmail.com>]

On 10/15/06, Jamie Stearns <stearns5@cox.net> wrote:
> ceratop(s?)ids

FYI ...

A family based on the dinosaur _Ceratops_ should be called "Ceratopidae".

A family based on the ostracod _Ceratopsis_ should be "Ceratopsiidae"
or "-opseidae"

A family based on the orchid _Ceratopsis_ should be "Ceratopsiaceae"
or "-opseaceae".


... or that's the conclusions I've reached after scouring the ICZN
code and a lexicon of ancient Greek.

Short version; the critters currently discussed should probably be
called ceratopids. :)

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Andreas Johansson

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