Another possibility is that they are using the app and the pix are very small and eyes are not so good anymorr
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Both worms and bugs are covered under the Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, so this is a violation and one or the other should be changed.
A plant and an animal can have the same name. (Here plant = non-animal; plants, fungi, algae, etc.)
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That’s an interesting one! I’m an amateur and self-taught in taxonomy, mostly through my experiences in iNat. My understanding was that Class and Phylum etc all had certain types of endings, and you could usually tell from that ending what they were. There are also capitalisations and italics that are indicative of position within the hierachy, so a genus would always be distinguishable from a phylum just by virtue of being italicised. I have no idea of the actual “rules”, and I must get around to reading them!
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This rule only applied to Genera, not to taxons on different levels on the taxonomic tree. So this has the potential to cause more confusion.
Another example:
the Sword-billed Hummingbird: Ensifera ensifera
crickets and katydids: Enisfera (suborder)
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