what's your favorite latin name?

[CedrikG]

My sons' favorite: Paraphysa scrotum.

mouahahaha

 

[Nerri1029]

Stromatopelma calceatum..

easy to say.. though I'm used to latin anmes dealing with bacteria - good thing there's no common names for those

I named MINE - M'Lee a character from farscape that ate the bones of her prey..
get it calceatum...

Just picture a T chewing on a bone..

 

[Eurypterid]

Too bad it's just restricted to Ts. My favorite is Tethys vagina, but it's not a spider.

 

[Cirith Ungol]

Too bad it's just restricted to Ts. My favorite is Tethys vagina, but it's not a spider.

Why? Is that on Mars again?

 

[Dark Raptor]

My fav latin names are:

Crassocornoechinogammarus crassicornis Dybowski, 1927
Parapallaseakytodermogammarus abyssalis Dybowski, 1927
Zienkowiczikytodermogammarus zienkowiczi Dybowski, 1927
Toxophthalmoechinogammarus toxophthalmus Dybowski, 1927
Rhodophthalmokytodermogammarus cinnamomeus Dybowski, 1927
Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis Dybowski, 1927

all of them belongs to Amphipoda

And fav. T name is:
Cyrtopholis cursor (Ausserer, 1875)

 

[Sheri]

I especially enjoy the ones I can pronounce.

 

[Jmadson13]

Have to love Pterinochilus; I really like soft "P"s

 

[bengerno]

And what about Pseudhapalopus spinulopalpus?

 

[Gesticulator]

haha!

There are some that I never can pronounce, unless I look it up And even then I find myself still saying what comes naturally, lol.

geniculata is also fun!

BTW, if you dont know how to pronounce a name, here ya go http://atshq.org/articles/beechwp1.html

Thanks for that! Psalmopoeus was a poser for me.
I also like "cyaneopubescens" My kids and I add a bit of a tune to the names to help us rember them. Geniculata and aureostriata are also our favs.

 

[redhourglass]

Hi.

Here is a link some of you may know or not. Not restricted to Ts but to taxomomy puns etc.

http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxPuns.html

 

[Carlos Erion]

this one lifted my spirit thanks guys.

we are just a bunch of geeks?

and I feel good about that.

I would say my favorite is........

I don't even know how to spell it......

 

[joe8421]

Pterinochilus of cours

 

[SchecterManC1FR]

P. metallica for me. It's got the name of my favorite band.

 

[izan]

I particularly like Cyriopagopus because i got 2 weeks off work, when i told the boss i was real sick and had been diagnosed with a bad dose of 'Cyriopagopus.'

But i dont like being subjected to some geeky-twerp who thinks if he memorises 50 latin names and repeats them endlessly, i will consider him an expert !

"Hmmmmmm, yes....... no, you see. You can no longer call that species a Lasiodora cristata. It has been renamed with an even more stupid name, Its er, erm........ Nhandu chromotomato-us." AAAAAARGH, leave it alone !

 

[chandlermonster]

thanks for the great sire whyte dragon!

I'd have to say Brachypelma Vagans is my favorite name. Maybe because I own two and say it a lot, but I think it sounds like an alien villain.

 

[Nitibus]

Metriopelma zebrata

Almost sounds like an urban zebra

 

[The_Thunderer]

I like Avicularia versicolor. I know that Avicularia more or less means "bird-eating," and I guess that "versicolor" means "many-colored" or "varied-in-color". So, putting it together we would get "many-colored bird-eater".

I like to parse words... LOL.

 

[problemchildx]

For me it is a tie between

Heteroscroda maculata - sounds like a manly spider

and

Chilobrachys fimbriatus

 

[thebugwife]

Idolomantis Diabolica - Devil's Flower Mantis
Oh yeah Ts
Lasiodora difficilis - having like 50 of them makes them difficilis!

 

[beetleman]

AVICULARIA AMAZONICA...........i just love the way it just rolls off the tongue:clap: