That was an easy one......

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> Van: Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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> Onderwerp: Re: Latin
> Datum: dinsdag 15 februari 2000 12:51
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> Xenophora conchiliophora (Born, 1780).
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> Harry
>
>
> At 10:49 PM 2/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >As Andrew Rindsberg indicated, the suffix -phora (and its masculine
> >counterpart -phorus) means "bearer of".  Armed with that knowledge, it
should
> >be a snap to figure out the meanings of genus names like:
> >Xenophora
> >Triphora
> >Cyclophorus
> >Tropidophora
> >Geophorus
> >Conophora
> >Rhabdotophorus
> >Traumatophorus
> >Bactronophorus
> >Chlamydephorus
> >Cricophorus
> >Plaxiphora
> >Lecithophorus
> >Lirophora
> >Not to mention species names like:
> >Galeodea echinophora
> >Katelysia rhytiphora
> >Crassostrea rhizophora
> >QUIZ QUESTION: Name a species which has this suffix on BOTH its genus
name
> >AND its specific name.
> >Have Fun!
> >Paul M.
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