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Re: Genus Abbreviations

Ah, thanks.  Finding that saves rather a lot of time!    It'd be nice to
have a shorter version on the aka page perhaps.  I could just go through
that list and compile it since I'm probably the only one who feels like
it'll be nice to have!

Doug


>         Hi All,
>
>                         The Mar/April JAKA contains the list of names from
>KMI 4 with the abbreviations listed.  The same list is on the Arizona web
>site I think.  This was intended to help alleviate the confusion.  In
>writing their are simply rules concerning always completely typing the
>genus every time it changes and then use the first letter of the genus
>until the genus under discussions changed.
>
>                 Regarding the spelling, I downloaded the KMI list from he
>web site, edited to remove everything but the genera and species and then
>used spell check to add it to the dictionary. It didn't take long.
>
>                                                 Tony
>
>At 08:19 AM 1/27/01 -0600, you wrote:
>>Doug wrote:
>><No, I was thinking about the list of abbreviations at the aka site for
>><genera, like Fp. for fundulopanchax, N. for nothos, Cyno. for
>><Cynolebias,etc.  Mostly there are some new genera like <Chromaphyosemion,
>>Scriptaphyosemion, Nematolebias, Simpsonichthys, etc,
>>
>>Oh, that list.  It already exists for the "Old" genera in the front of
>>"Killifish Master Index"(KMI) third edition.  I presume that the forth
>>coming edition of KMI will continue this format with the new genera.  Much
>>of the KMI uses abbreviations so it would almost have to.
>>
>>Just trying to same you some time.
>>
>>Joe Weber
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Doug Karpa-Wilson
Department of Biology
Indiana University
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Bloomington, IN 47405


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