Talk about free advertising for a company! This is a marketable idea. After
the coca-living landsnail Cocacola, someone could name the minute shell-less
pulmonate Microsoftia.
 
 
At 02:52 PM 1/11/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Helmut Nisters writes,
>
>"I know some Genera as Fruticicola, Urticicola, Saxicola, but I never
>heard Cocacola. Is anybody able to help me."
>
>Surely anyone who has a copy of Brown's "Composition of Scientific Words"
>is aware that the Latin root -cola refers to the "dweller" or "inhabitant"
>of the preceding item. Saxicola dwells on rocks, Petricola actually in
>rocks. Cardium arenicolum lives in sand, as does the lugworm Arenicola.
>Whereas "Cocacola" is a soft drink flavored with African cola nuts and
>South American coca leaves (with the active ingredient first removed).
>Cocacola would be an apt name for a land snail that lives in coca
>plantations. So, Helmut, perhaps you should contact a Peruvian biologist
>for specimens to name.
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama
>
Aaron Baldwin
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