It is agreed that while the Basle nomenclature has the merit of being an international one, yet it has many defects and the Latin names of many parts are by no means a pleasure to tbe student, nor in themselves things of beauty. Lt.-Ool. Milne in a recent issue of this Gazette has discussed this subject. The present volume, however, gives in an appendix a list of the most important changes in t...

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B. Trusko1; J. Thorne2; D. Jabs1; R. Belfort3; A. Dick4; S. Gangaputra5; R. Nussenblatt6; A. Okada7; J. Rosenbaum8; for The Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Project 1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, New York, New York, USA; 2The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3Federal University of Sao Paulo, Department of Ophthal...

Linnaean binomial nomenclature is logically incompatible with the phylogenetic nomenclature of de Queiroz and Gauthier (1992, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 23:449-480): The former is based on the concept of genus, thus making this rank mandatory, while the latter is based on phylogenetic definitions and requires the abandonment of mandatory ranks. Thus, if species are to receive names under phylogenet...