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Date: | Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:34:31 -0400 |
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>Concerning the thread "Whorly vs. clammy": With a sweet, brief Latin name
>like Julia, who would want a different common name?
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>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.
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>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama
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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.
* G Thomas Watters *
* Ohio Biological Survey & *
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* Ohio State University *
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