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Resource for translating latin fish names?

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Resource for translating latin fish names?

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  1. There sure seems to be a lot of different spellings:

     

     

    Wikipedia: Poriclymenus was a son of Nereus and one of the Argonauts. Poseidon gave him the ability to shapeshift in various animals. He was killed by Heracles at Pylos.

     

    Ovid XII, 556.

  2. Scientists often name animals after each other and especially their predecessors - there's a great resource on who some of these people are/were at http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/index.htm if you want to try it. Some of the external links are broken though.

  3. That's a nice link, thanks for posting! Too bad they concentrate on invertebrates. They say that only two species were named after Jack Randall, when in fact there are 40 randalli species, and one genus (the butterflyfish Johnrandallia) out there!

     

    Luiz

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