Milan,
I've had a similar list of less than attractive synonyms....growing by the
day.

The creature in question is a freshwater clam, non-North American.  That's
the last hint I'll give.

Kurt

At 07:28 AM 6/2/99 PDT, you wrote:
>>From: Kurt Auffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Most named mollusk
>
>Kurt wrote:
>But, I'll defer to your obvious mastery of the topic and move onto something
>more important to my day to day
>existance .....Now, who knows the most-named creature?
>
>Hi Kurt,
>
>Probably the most-named creature was my unpopular university mathematics
>professor.Students gave him a lot of names, but I'll not list them here...
>Milan
>
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