Misnomers

[karstad - schueler]

W.Wuster wrote:
>
> There have been moves to standardise common names
> - some have suggested simply
> translating scientific names into modern languages
> - the result would be
> something of a nonsense, but then so is the whole idea of standardising
> common names, so I guess it does not matter all that much....
>

* On the other hand, the specific epithets of our local Unionid mussels
are so useful as field marks that in drawing up a key recently I set the
characters referred to in the epithet in bold type, in order to help
the user both learn the name and recognize the shell.

fred schueler.
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Frederick W. Schueler, Aleta Karstad, Jennifer Helene Schueler.
Bishops Mills, Grenville Co, Ontario, on the Smiths Falls Limestone
Plain: 18TVE 446 687, 44* 52'N 75* 42'W   bckcdb at istar.ca
Natural History Exploration, Interpretation, Illustration, & Analysis
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