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They should revamp all the names, and only leave descriptive names in latin.
What wasn't possible in the 1800s because of lack of quick communications, leading to multiple explorers using the same name, is not a limiting factor anymore. Just keep an official centralized database, like for trademarks.
I know, a bunch of stuff has been named for their "discoverers", and they deserve some credit... which goes best in a "classified by" field in a database, along a "year of classification", "place of classification", "other names", and such. Add a "previously classified as" field, and even searching by the old name is no longer a problem.
This is exactly what the American Ornithological Society did for English bird names.