>Concerning the thread "Whorly vs. clammy": With a sweet, brief Latin name
>like Julia, who would want a different common name?
>
>Which brings up an interesting question: How many shells have common names
>that were borrowed from Latin genera? Junonia, for instance. And Pecten,
>and Nautilus.
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama
>
>
 
It also works in reverse. Sometimes common Latin and Greek names became
generic names: Murex; Limax; Donax; Glycymeris; Mya; Nerita; Ostrea;
Tellina; etc. These were all common names (to the Greeks and Romans) made
into scientific names, and now many are used again as common names.
 
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