Within the last two decades, there has been suggestions to change common and scientific names to honor indigenous peoples or when a matronym or patronym was discovered to pursue reprehensible activities. While I applaud the changing of common names, I urge caution in changing scientific names, because I think that it would disrupt the stability of scientific nomenclature established by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since 1867.
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