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> From: Barry Ulman <ubarry at qwest.net>
> Date: March 19, 2011 12:12:14 AM PDT
> To: Dennis Paulson <dennispaulson at comcast.net>
> Cc: "McComb Gardens" <jane at mccombgardens.com>, TWEETERS tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Common names for plants
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> Dennis,
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> I'm not so sure about "scientific names" being constant either. Take these butterflies, for example:
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> Anosia plexippus or Danaus plexippus = Monarch
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> Papilio asterias or Papilio polyxenes = Eastern Black Swallowtail
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> Papilio turnus or Papilio glaucus or Pterourus glaucus = Tiger Swallowtail
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> Papilio rutulus or Pterourus rutulus = Western Tiger Swallowtail
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> Either the genus names or the species names, and sometimes both names, have changed over the years. But the common names of all those butterflies have remained constant.
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> Barry Ulman
> Bellingham, WA.
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>> I'm all for official common names. We generated them for dragonflies, and I think one of the consequences was that the interest in that group took a tremendous uptick. But thank goodness we have scientific names, which are constant for anyone in the world no matter their native language.
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>> Dennis
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>> dennispaulson at comcast.net
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