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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

Ee Gad, YES the botanical scientific names are changing !  I tested seeds 
for a few years, and I had to upgrade the lab's seed herbarium because there 
were so many recent changes in crops, weeds, and range/reclamation species.

If anyone is interested, I could post some websites.

Tanis Cuff


> From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] changing scientific nomenclature
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:47:46 -0500
>
> At 08:46 PM 09/03/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > One person said grounhogs are named Philohela minor and another said its 
> > Marmota monax.  I'll repeat my question...Is there more than one animal 
> > called a groundhog or woodchuck?.
>
> One species, Marmota monax.
>
> Scientific names of numerous species - animal, plant, and protists - are 
> being changed, to a large degree, based on newer DNA homology comparisons.  
> Guess taxonomists gotta have something to do.
> I wasn't aware of the groundhog/woodchuck's previous moniker - have really 
> only been paying attention to them for the last 10 years or so.  Some 
> biomedical researchers are looking at them as an animal model of human 
> disease - they have a hepatitis virus that induces hepatic 
> carcinoma(malignant tumors).
> Taxonomic changes in the microbiological field have been rampant over the 
> past 10-15 years.  Several of the commonly-encountered pathogens that I 
> deal with on a regular basis have experience name changes several times:
> Pasteurella haemolytica has become Mannheimia haemolytica
> Corynebacterium pyogenes -->Actinomyces pyogenes -->Arcanobacterium 
> pyogenes
> Treponema hyodysenteriae-->Serpula hyodysenteriae-->Serpulina 
> hyodysenteriae-->Brachyspira hyodysenteriae
>
> Name changes in the plant world have been less common(to my knowledge) - 
> are the plant taxonomists sleeping?  Several of the oak species have been 
> 'renamed', most not so much on the basis of DNA comparisons as by 
> previously accepted misidentifications and acceptance of conventional names 
> based on chronologic identification(someone had previously IDed and named a 
> species, but a later name had gained more widespread usage).  Only other 
> major plant name change that I can think of, off the top of my head, is the 
> Japanese Pagodatree/Chinese Scholar Tree, Sophora japonica, which has 
> recently been changed to Styphnolobia japonica.
>
>
> Lucky Pittman
> USDA Zone 6
> Hopkinsville, KY
>
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