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unusual facts about homonym


Thury, Yonne

Homonymy with many Tauriac, Thoiry Thoury, Toury, and so on.


Calceolaria

:For the junior homonym Calceolaria Heist. ex Fabr., see Cypripedium.

Cassytha

An unfortunate consequence has been that the homonym Cassytha Mill. (1768) is often mentioned as a synonym of the genus Rhipsalis, although this perception is incorrect, since the generic name Cassytha had already been applied to a completely different genus in a different plant family.

Diplomorpha

nom. illeg., a taxonomic synonym of Sauropus, a genus of herbs, shrubs and subshrubs in the Phyllanthaceae, and a later homonym of Diplomorpha Meisn.

Ditropis

There is also a hemipteran genus Ditropis, homonym of Stiroma Fieber 1866 , belonging to the family Delphacidae.

Epidendrum ruizianum

The synonym E. nutans Ruiz & Pav. (1798) is an illegitimate name because it is a homonym of Excess All Areas

The title is a pun on "Access All Areas" (text often found on backstage passes at concerts) being a homonym with the title in Australian English.

Fischer-Z

Fischer-Z (pronounced as a homonym of "fisher's head") were a British rock band formed in 1976 by John Watts and Steve Skolnik at Brunel University.

Jorge Fons

Two of the most important films of his filmography are Rojo amanecer (1989) and El callejón de los milagros (1995) based in the homonym book by Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley of 1947 (زقق المدق), which breaks the classic lineal plots in films.

Lacronia

This genus was at first called Luederwaldtia Mello-Leitão, 1923, but the name was already preoccupied, being a junior homonym of Luederwaldtia Schmidt, 1922 (Hemiptera).

Lithodryas

It was introduced as a replacement for Samuel Hubbard Scudder's genus Lithopsyche which is invalid as a homonym, as another fossil lepidopteran genus had been described under the same name shortly before Scudder established his genus.

Pilophorus

Note that Pilophorus is a homonym for another taxonomic genus: Pilophorus Hahn, 1826 is namely a genus of the family Miridae in the order of the Hemiptera.

Pinicola

Pinicola Vieillot, 1808 (Aves, Fringillidae) makes the name Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 a junior homonym and therefore unavailable for a genus of Xyelidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera).

Pirot carpet

Stemming from the homonym to the today's Turkish settlement of Şarköy in Thracia, which had no established rug making tradition, Şarköys are often falsely ascribed to originate from Turkey.

Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies

In her honour were baptised in Florence the Piazza Maria Antonia – today Piazza dell'Indipendeza (Independence Square), the railway line Maria Antonia and the homonym station, now called Firenze Santa Maria Novella.

Sellero

Close between the near communes (Berzo Demo, Capo di Ponte, Cedegolo and Paisco Loveno), it saw to reduce his territorial extension after the second world war, when gave a lot of his ground, especially mountainous or wooded, at the another communes in the zone (for example the homonym mountain is in the province of Sondrio).

She Saihua

While this seems possible considering She Deyi and Yang Ye's age and geography, not all historians are convinced of the claim, especially since the fictitious character with the homonym surname She (佘) had already appeared back in the Yuan Dynasty and was widely known by Qing Dynasty.


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