Talk:achaemenid

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achaemenid

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1. (zoology) Any member of the Achaemenidae.

This is one of a huge number of entries generated by User:Equinox based on the assumption that anything with the ending in -idae refers to a taxonomic family in the animal kingdom, which means it has a corresponding noun ending in -id that refers to a member of that family. Mostly, that's true, but there are exceptions: first of all, botanical names for subclasses also end in -idae, and then there are cases like this one, where a Latin- or Greek-derived term uses the plural from the original language (the w:Achaemenidae were a dynasty of ancient Persian rulers). I might have just speedied this one, but the history shows an earlier attempt at removing this information that was reverted, so I brought it here to be on the safe side: is this ever used to refer to members of a taxonomic, rather than a human, family? Chuck Entz (talk) 14:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

The fact that Wikispecies has no mention of an Achaemenidae taxonomic family is quite damning... Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:46, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiSpecies is far from complete. I'll look into it. DCDuring TALK 19:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

I don't have a particularly complete source for insect taxonomy. I tried Biodiversity Heritage library, Index of Organism Names, Encyclopedia of Life, Catalog of Life, and ITIS. No joy on Achaemendidae as a taxon. There is a genus of bug Achaemenes in Cixiidae family. (BTW, note all the redlinks among the genera at species:Cixiidae, a common situation for insect taxa.) DCDuring TALK 20:14, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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