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RE: Thanks for the conversation on taxonomy for hobbyist, I had a epiphany

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Posted by: mequinn at Sun Oct 3 19:56:28 2004  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mequinn ]  
   

fr,
ON THE POINT YOU MADE BELOW, I AGREE WITH YOU ABSOLUTELY - BUT IN TAXON-WORLD, YOU NAME FIRST OR YOU'RE FORGOTTEN - IT DOES NOT MAKE FOR GOOD SCIENCE OR OF (Some of) THE SCIENTIST WHO DO THAT....YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST TO RAISE AN EYE-BROW TO THIS!

mbayless

A thought, when I first became involved in the varanid world, I was told that Bohme, was the taxonomic god. He was doing great work. So I did some looking, and what I found was disturbing. I saw that he was naming lots of new species. But, I felt he was using a very poor approach. He had alined himself, with commerial collectors, and picked up(nice term) the first of many new monitors. The problem was, he did not do any actual research. Many of these newly named monitors, were named and discribed, without any real information, only heresay from the collectors. It indeed proved out, that the localities were not accurate. I was under the impression, with scientific nomenclature, the evidence must be verified, and local is a key component in naming a species. In other words, no one actually looked to see if the information was right. That sirs and sirsettes, is poor taxonomy.


   

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