Thank you, Tom.

Apparently the name is a Röding invention. I think it was the ground color
rather than the color pattern that led to this name.

Marien

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Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: Freshwater barnacle


> Lister (1681) called it, Nerita subviridis lineis capillaceis.
>
> Tom E.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > Behalf Of M. J. Faber
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:56 PM
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> > Subject: Re: Freshwater barnacle
> >
> >
> > Röding (1798) wrote:
> >
> > "N. Usnea Die mossfarbige Nerite", referring to a figure in
> > Lister. So moss
> > indeed was what Röding had in mind. Or perhaps Lister. I do not know
what
> > name Lister used for this shell.
> >
> >
> > Marien
> > www.mollus.nl
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thomas E. Eichhorst" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: Freshwater barnacle
> >
> >
> > > Andy,
> > >
> > > If I had known to ask you it would have saved me a ton of research!!
I
> > give
> > > the etymology for each species name.  Below is what I have for V
usnea.
> > > Nice to have it verified.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > ETYMOLOGY:  The name usnea is from the Arabic oshnah for moss.
> > It is also
> > > the name for any of several gray lichens of the genus Usnea (also
called
> > old
> > > man's beard) found in pine forests in the United States and
> > used in herbal
> > > remedies for antibacterial purposes.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Conchologists of America List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > > Behalf Of Andy Rindsberg
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:02 PM
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> > > Subject: Re: Freshwater barnacle
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Tom.
> > >
> > > Incidentally, I got curious about the strange name "usnea" and
> > > looked it up.
> > > Usnea is a genus of beard-lichens; the word is Botanical Latin,
> > > from Arabic
> > > oshnah, "moss". It's not a name that I would have chosen for Vitta
> usnea,
> > > but maybe the color pattern reminded Roeding of moss or moss-like
> lichen.
> > > Spanish "moss", the angiosperm that hangs from trees in regions
> > > adjacent to
> > > the Gulf of Mexico, is Dendropogon usneoides.
> > >
> > > Andrew K. Rindsberg
> > > Geological Survey of Alabama
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