mark wrote:
>
> Common shell names, Might we remember that common names serve many purposes.
> When we started out on this folly many of us learned about shells from their
> common names, lettered cone, the name fits as it does look like Chinese
> writing. Common names also help by giving easy names to shells so beginners
> can easily identify them . how many times have you stood there on the beach
> and someone asks what is that in your hand . if you use a Latin name they
> look at you as if your some biologist and they lose interest. but by using a
> common name you can see how they associate and maybe at that point we have
> recruited yet one more into the army of shelters. i believe that if it take
> using common names to get beginners interested then so be it. When trying to
> find common names for shells it help to convert the Latin to English ,
> conus magus - magic cone,
> mark
I have a friend from Oriental Belouchistan. He calls Common whelk:
Brochkhatrah. Very usual common name,is itn't! and that is a good reason
to delete the international latin name.
Remember the Tower of Babel.   Hi,   Pat.