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Subject:	Re: Who has Vertigo and wants to get rid of it/them?
From:	aydin <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:48:54 -0400
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The Latin dictionary says vertigo means "turning or whirling around". When
the snail is making its shell it's turning around the columellar axis.

Aydin
snailstales.blogspot.com


On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:27:46 -0400, Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>
>Does anyone know what M�ller (1774: 124) was thinking when he named the genus?
>
>Harry
>
>M�ller, O. F., 1774. Vermium Terrestrium et
>Fluviatilium seu animalium infusorium,
>helminthicorum, et testaceorum non marinorum
>succincta historia. Heinick and Faber, Havnia and
>Lipsia. xxxvi + 1-214 + x [unpaginated indices].

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