common names for various organisms; they try to coin (and put into common use) comprehensive, useful, authoritative, and standardised lists of new names. The purpose typically is:

* to create names from scratch where no common names exist
* to impose a particular choice of name where there is more than one common name
* to improve existing common names
* to replace them with names that conform more to the relatedness of the organisms

Other attempts to reconcile differences between widely separated regions, traditions,

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