The Genera of Fishes: From Linnaeus to Cuvier, 1758-1833, Seventy-Five Years, With the Accepted Type of Each; A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific Nomenclature (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Genera of Fishes: From Linnaeus to Cuvier, 1758-1833, Seventy-Five Years, With the Accepted Type of Each; A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific Nomenclature

Recently efforts have been made to secure stability by fiat, using names more or less current, without serious regard to the law of priority. To accept this plan would merely accentuate the confusion already exist ing and which has arisen through just such disregard of fundamental rules.

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