I know that the original published spelling and usage,
unless it violates the rules, stands. But we must be careful, when
honoring someone, that we establish the scientific name in such a way
that IT IS an honor. This business of translating or altering
proper nouns whether they are the names of people, locations or otherwise
is always difficult and probably should not be done. If you stick
with the spelling and use that the honoree uses him/herself and change
only endings, you will not make serious mistakes.
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Here's a couple of useful sites:
Pronunciation of biological Latin names:
http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm
To order the latest ICZN and other pubs:
http://www.iczn.org/code.htm
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This is still a classic and extremely useful in forming, pronouncing, and
using words, prefixes, suffixes, and most anything else pertinent to
science in Latin and Greek.
Composition of Scientific Words: A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of
Materials for the Practice of
Logotechnics, by Roland Wilbur Brown.
Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000 (c1956). 882p.,
bibliog., index.
ISBN 1-56098-848-7. $27.95. LC Call no.:
PE1175.B76 1978.