%0 Journal Article %T Dilemma of name-recognition: Why and whento use new combinations of scientific names. %A Hobart M. Smith %A David Chiszar %J Herpetological Conservation and Biology %D 2006 %I Herpetological Conservation and Biology %X Recent changes in many scientific names have caused confusion for many non-systematists. We suggest wider useof the category of subgenus as a compromise between the simultaneous needs that exist at the present time: nomenclaturalstability for the vast variety of users of scientific names, and phylogenetic correctness for systematists and others concerned. %K taxonomic changes %K nomenclatural stability %K subgenera %K name usage %U http://www.herpconbio.org/volume_1/issue_1/Smith_Chiszar_2006.pdf