Hi all,
I was glancing through the latest addition to my library last night (Howard
& Moore's Checklist of Birds of the World) and came acros the genus name
Eremophila for two species of Larks. One of these occurs in Europe and so I
checked my field guides and indeed the name is spelt the same way.
The reason that this raised my curiosity is that the same genus name is
applied to a large Australian genus of plants in the family Myoporaceae.
Many are WA endemics, but some of the eastern species include Emu-bush (E.
longifolia) and various Fuschia Bushes.
I thought one of the rules of Linnaean systematics was that the genus is
unique. Is this the case? Or does this only apply within a Kingdom (ie
plants and animals can have the same genus name)? If so does anyone else
know of any genera that have been used for both plants and animals?
Cheers,
Peter
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