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Subject: NANFA-- Esox "lacustris"
To answer Ty Hall's query -- "is there a governing body for the naming of
fish
or the recognition of a species?" -- the answer is, sort of.
The International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) sets and
officiates a body of rules that all zoological taxonomists must follow in
order
to properly describe new taxa, or subsume previously dscribed taxa into
subspecies or junior synonyms.
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