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1. Reduce complex ethnic spellings.to a minimum (ideally
no more than four syllables), using only characters
employed in Uniespo and the ITK, in accordance with
Rule 18. And that goes of course for “Latin” centipedes
too!
Saxegothaea Saksegotio
Boussingaultia Busingoltio
Parapallaseakotylodermogammarus Kotylodermo
Roberthoffstetteria nationalgeographica Robertusso
2. If non-Latin names are translatable — such as those
latinized from Russian or Chinese — it is necessary,
without exception, to turn them into combinations of
corresponding and international ITK-roots.
Krasnopoevaecejathus tyrgaensis REPINA, KHOMENTOVSKII,
ZHURAULEVA & ROZANOV, 1964 Ruberosomfo turguja
3. Provide them with the ending -(Z)IO which, though
having no meaning in itself, does serve as a marker to
denote the word in question foreign and therefore
officially devoid of coherent innate meaning:
Brosmius Brosmio
(German) Pfrille Pfrilio
Fuxsio, Panio, Lineio, Lamarkio... a.s.o.
The difference between this rule and Rule 5, is that here we are
dealing with words having no (tangible) meaning, as opposed to
those with at least some degree of comprehensibility
4. Where tradition need not be observed — as in coining a
name for a new genus — but the author is determined to
use a proper name, it should be borrowed from a
universally existing concept such as a country, lake,
mountain, city, ethnic group, mythological figure, or the
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