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Re: Dinosauria---Rejected Name?
In a message dated 2/23/02 10:58:23 AM Eastern Standard Time,
kinman@hotmail.com writes:
> Sorry about misspelling Papilioniformes, but that would be a horrible
> replacement name for Lepidoptera. Besides it is also being used for a
much
> smaller clade of about 6 butterfly families.
Well, then, that's a different issue. It's not that Papilioniformes is an
inappropriate name for Lepidoptera; it's that it's already being used for
something else.
--Nick P.