Changing Scientific Names: A Commentary

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Abstract

Within the last two decades, there has been suggestions to change common and scientific names to honor indigenous peoples or when a matronym or patronym was discovered to pursue reprehensible activities. While I applaud the changing of common names, I urge caution in changing scientific names, because I think that it would disrupt the stability of scientific nomenclature established by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since 1867.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalReviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Aquatic Science
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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