Taxonomic Swap 33255 (Committed on 2018-06-20)

swapped in Reptile Database

unknown | 6_2018 RD update
Yes
Added by loarie on June 11, 2018 04:11 PM | Committed by loarie on June 20, 2018
replaced with

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Lots of epithets use interpretations of Latin that are not perfectly literal or exactly correct. This name change flips two centuries of published taxonomy, which will only serve to cause confusion and make researching historical literature more difficult. It doesn't clarify a new relationship.
These name changes for the sake of name changes serve no practical purpose, but epithets should and do. I hope the people that got their names in a journal for this go outside and do some research that is actually helpful.

Posted by pantherophis almost 6 years ago

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