You should read the book on the official Dutch (common) names on
shells'you'll be amazed about the number of synonymies.
 
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> Van: Emilio Lopez <[log in to unmask]>
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: Re: common names , we need them.
> Datum: donderdag 30 april 1998 16:35
>
> Hola:
> Common names, the tower of Babel; scientific names, the mini-tower of
> Babel, but
> we are working on it.
> Emilio
>
> (if the human being began to put names to things 100.000 years ago, and
> if we think in the number of synonyms we have in only 200 years, it is a
> wonder the small number of synonyms that exist in the popular names;
> what our ancestors forgot was to put the author's name in them:
> I like a lot pt'dm'a twre@pruuu retw', -92.345; -92.345 is the year;
> retw' was an homo erectus very brilliant)