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Re: RE: KillieTalk Digest V2 #1027(nomenclature)
In a message dated 8/20/99 2:42:06 PM, bjc3 at cornell_edu writes:
<< I'd like to briefly clarify. I suspect that a better choice of words for
what Lee was saying is "Nomenclature is never, ever "final". >>
and
In a message dated 8/20/99 12:47:33 PM, huntley1 at home_com writes:
<<
This is particularly true for some hobbyists who insist they know better
than the International Committee on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the
otherwise universally-accepted group for establishing "official" scientific
nomenclature for animals. World wide, their decision *is* "official" (if
often disagreed with). >>
Of course, what I meant to say and imply was "official" in the AKA sense.
International rules (ICZN) are of course "official" in the truest sense of
the word, but they are also not without change. Sorry for the inadvertent
implication that there was no official nomenclature. The best the AKA can do
is make available to the hobbyist (via the KMI, JAKA, etc) the best and
latest distillation of the ICZN nomenclature. Not a trivial task as mentioned
vis-a-vis the KMI efforts.
Lee Harper