Talk:Brucepattersonius

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So who is the Bruce Patterson that these are named after? Stan 18:30, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Wish I knew, Stan! user:Bmills is asking too. I strongly suspect that it is Bruce Patterson the Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (see http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ceb/faculty/Patterson.html ), but none of my sources say so, and Google doesn't pick up any page linking him to Brucepattersonius. I suppose I could email him (or one of the authors cited in this article) and ask. seglea 05:06, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I've just emailed Maure at Oklahoma to ask him; if he doesn't answer, I'll mail Patterson, but I have this idea he might be a bit embarrassed about it - there are funny informal rules about naming taxa after people - so I didn't want to go to him first. seglea 06:30, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The following correspondence confirms the origin of the genus name:

--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:14:55 -0300

From: "Michael.A.Mares-1" <mamares@ou.edu>

Subject: Re: brucepattersonius

Sender: "Michael.A.Mares-1" <mamares@ou.edu>

To: Stephen Lea

yes, it was named for Bruce.

Original Message

From: Stephen Lea

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:17 am

Subject: brucepattersonius

Dear Colleague,

I am just writing a short encyclopediea article that mentions Brucepattersonius as a recently discovered genus. I am assuming that it was named in honour of Bruce Patterson of the University of Chicago and Field Museum, but I don't want to say that this is so if it isn't true. Do you happen to know if it is? I'd be very grateful for clarification.

Yours sincerely

Stephen Lea

seglea 02:10, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)