Scientific name is not permanent. If another scientist has a better name, he can change it.?

Question

is this
true
false

Answer 1

a scientific name (for an animal species ect.) CANNOT change unless another scientist proves that the species fits better in a different family/kingdom ect.

Answer 2

There are specific guidelines for naming things that must be followed. The honor of naming goes to the first person to describe the species and have the paper published in an internationally published journal and a specimen must be kept at a long term facility such as a museum. They are not allowed to name things after themselves or give them frivilious names. However, if someone comes along and finds that the species discovered is really just another species that had already been named, it gets corrected.

Answer 3

Scientific names are usually given to the scientist who first discovered the object, named in honor of the scientist. An example is Fourier series, for the exapnsion of a periodic functions in terms of sine and cosine functions. Once is called by that name, it will never, ever be changed!

Answer 4

In theory true, but for it to take hold, he has to convince other scientists that it is better. This happens in entomology often; there is one bettle called the "confused flour bettle", not because the beetle is confused, but because people can't settle on which family it is in!

Answer 5

In general, false. It is very rare for a species to be proven to have been mis-named.