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Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>:
> I was unaware of this instance of splitting but in general it
> would save much confusion and annoyance if taxonomists could be
> persuaded, when splitting, to consider the fragments to be
> Subgenera, Sections, Subsections etc and leave well established
> Genera alone.
* the problem here is that some of the fragments of equivalent
phlyletic rank were already considered genera, so lumping the whole
group into Drosophila would have sunk some genera to the rank of
subgenera, and changed the name of their species, doubtless with
numerous cases of ensuing homonymy.
fred.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] How scientists refer to Fruit Flies
>
>
>> On 12/6/2013 4:04 PM, Ronald Arsenault wrote:
>>
>>> by contrast there are now probably tens of thousands of
>>> scientists using 'Drosophila', usually D. melanogaster, who mostly
>>> seem not to be worried that the genus name ought to be, and perhaps
>>> might even end up being, changed to Sophophora.
>>
>> * and that's a real minefield to step into... see
>> https://www.google.ca/search?q=taxacom+%27Drosophila%27++Sophophora+site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu&client=firefox-a&hs=wk4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1028&bih=677
>>
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