Scientific Names
Blee811@aol.com (Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:49:07 PDT)

In a message dated 7/5/2006 5:21:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
wpoulsen@pacbell.net writes:

Is it the case that the scientific names for plants and the ones for
animals need not pay attention to each other?

Yes, that is indeed the case. I remember a humorous talk a year or so ago in
which the speaker did a great job explaining the nomenclature. Then he
illustrated some of the names with drawings and photos and it was amazing to see a
monkey and a plant with the same genus name. I think there were primate and
avian overlaps too.

Bill Lee