common or scientific names?

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

....it is more of a 'lingo' than anything scientific....nothing to be too concerned over...since 90% of people use common names.

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Great post none the less! Learning the lingo is an all important part of the industry... and can certainly be confusing for a new comer to a certain reptile.

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Are you telling me Pacman Frog isn't scientific? How dare thee... :colbert:

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Originally Posted by Chase13

Are you telling me Pacman Frog isn't scientific? How dare thee... :colbert:

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Well, you've got your Ceratophrys cranwelli.. your C. ornata.. C. cornuta.. then your hybrids.. lol. :D
Mark swears that they got their name from people feeding them white mice.. kinda lika Pacman eating the dots in the game..

I've been playing with a Taxonomic Meta-search Engine I just found.

It's fairly useful for finding the scientific names of a species if you have the common name. It has some problems with common names that are more than two words. For example, if you put in "Green Tree Python", you'll get no results. If you put in Tree Python, however, you get "Morelia viridis".

It also will often not give you subspecies names, since it doesn't always use trinominal nomenclature.

It can also be slow at times.....sometimes it's just better to use uBio, one of the taxonomy search engines within the meta-search engine. Also, it doesn't seem to have as many problems with common names with three words in it.

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Originally Posted by Chase13

Are you telling me Pacman Frog isn't scientific? How dare thee... :colbert:

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There are actually some scientific names based off popular culture references. Star Wars fans will be excited to know that scientists have found midichlorians inside tick cells (the newly discovered and named intraorganellular bacteria Midichloria mitochondrii).

Gene names do this even more. There are gene names based off of pop culture, literature, and biblical references.

yeah this is what worries me if im gonna become an entomoligst...taxonomy...pain in the butt.