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"Monfils, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:48:21 -0400
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caeruleus/a/um is the Latin word for blue.  coeruleus/a/um doesn't mean
anything that I am aware of, yet I have seen this spelling in a number of
species names, presumably intended to have the same meaning as caeruleus.
Anyone know why this is so?

Paul M.

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