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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Klim" data-source="post: 1691890" data-attributes="member: 773">I must admit that the question in my first post was disingenuous - in reality I guessed that the binomial had just been informally contrived from the suggested English name (although I wondered if perhaps I'd somehow missed something).But I was a bit worried by your suggestion that its use in the public domain could now prevent its eventual application to this form.  So it's a relief to see that, if/when the taxon is formally described, the authors would still be able to commemorate the late Peter Grant with that name (if they so wished).Richard</blockquote>