Imagine that two completely unrelated species in very different families were accidentally given the same name. What kind of confusion would this cause? What if both were separately the subject of several scientific studies, and results were published in papers that did not mention the family name. Would it be possible to know which study concerned which species?

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Imagine that two completely unrelated species in very different families were accidentally given the same name. What kind of confusion would this cause? What if both were separately the subject of several scientific studies, and results were published in papers that did not mention the family name. Would it be possible to know which study concerned which species?

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