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Originally Posted by goosey
.........To cut a long story short it turns out that the Dutch uses different Latin names than the rest of the world for fungi! (Poor Linnaeus will be turning in his grave  .)
I presume fungi is the exception to the rule and other things are united in Latin names? |
Yes and no!
When names get 'up-dated' the new names tend to be recognised first in the country of the systematist who has changed the names ... it takes time for the new names to spread over the world. This isn't due to people objecting to the change, simply that they don't hear about it or alter their books and websites.
There are, however, some dividing lines - when it comes to
lumping and
splitting of (
e.g.) beetles, north Europeans tend to be more conservative than entomologists in southern Europe. Good example is that UK has only one
genus of
Carabus (eleven species)
whereas in Italy and the Balkans almost every species which we call
Carabus is in a separate genus (
Eucarabus, Archicarabus, Hemicarabus, Megodontus etc etc.... what we call sub-genera become genera.
However, back to my
original point: most of us would still get a hold on these names whereas we wouldn't necessarily take in French, Russian, Lebanese or English vernacular names ...