 
| Subject: | |
| From: | |
| Reply To: | |
| Date: | Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:36:56 -0400 |
| Content-Type: | text/plain |
| Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Jerry Walls is not the only person to name mollusks after cats. Catriona
maua Marcus & Marcus, 1960 was named after a cat, as was the genus Miesea
Marcus, 1961. Curiously, "mau" means "bad" in Portuguese, and "mies" means
"bad" in German, so apparently Ernst and Eveline Marcus had some naughty
cats for pets. They also had a dog named Teco, whose name appears in the
genus Piseinotecus, which means "I stepped on Teco" in Portuguese. All of
these are names of opisthobranchs. For further details see American
Malacological Bulletin 5:184 (1987).
Gary
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary Rosenberg, Ph.D. [log in to unmask]
Malacology & Invertebrate Paleontology gopher://erato.acnatsci.org
Academy of Natural Sciences http://www.acnatsci.org
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Phone 215-299-1033
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195 USA Fax 215-299-1170
|
|
|
