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Re: Law[-]Abiding New Papers
Quoting David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>:
No, that would be downright ridiculous. *Turdus merula* is the
"thrush" (turdus) that is the "blackbird" (merula), but
*Stormbergia* is not Dangershoek.
(...Even though the shark *Galeocerdo* is Cuvier, and the salamander
*Pleurodeles* is Waltl -- these are established embarrassing lapsi
calami [or perhaps deliberate insults, who knows!] that cannot be
emended.)
And then there's *Alioramus altai*. I've been wondering why Brusatte
et al. chose that, rather than *altaiensis* or *altaicus*.
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Nicholas J. Pharris