Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophila or Sophophora melanogaster?

Posted by andrzej grzywacz on 10-04-2010 09:06
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I have found interesting paper on taxonomic position of Drosophila melanogaster http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464825a.html I didn't know previously about such problems with D. melagoaster. For me this opinion of geneticists and their petition are strange. Do any of you know situation when International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has changed type species like in this case? Personally I think that commission did it right saving D. funebris as a type species. D. melanogaster is some kind of celebrity, as it was written, but taxonomic rules are more important I think.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 13-04-2010 18:58
#2

See the latest news item on the home page of this site...

Posted by andrzej grzywacz on 15-04-2010 18:28
#3

Thank you. Indeed, I should first look on the home page. Sorry for commotion Frown

Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-04-2010 18:55
#4

Hehe, the commotion is hardly your doing... Wink