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Frederick W Schueler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 6 Dec 2008 20:01:04 -0500
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Martin H. Eastburn wrote:

> Nice list.

* it's a very nice array of pictures that must have been difficult to
assemble.

I'd only comment that the "name" of a species is supposed to always
include the generic name (nominally, the genus is the noun and the
specific epithet is an adjective), so it's a little slangy to identify
the pictures only by the specific and subspecific epithets, without the
prefixed "C."

fred.
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