extinction vs local extinction vs extirpation etc.

[Anne Kilmer]

Banjaxed is a good word, and not overused. Say these mussels are
banjaxed in the Gulf? No, I guess not.
There had better not be a word extotion. I hope you just now made that
up.
Snuffed? (Let us all now, in chorus, do the dead parrot skit from Monty
Python, looking for suitable words. Wasn't that fun?)
If indeed the Esquimaux
Have a dozen words for snow,
Dwellers in Howondaland
Have as many terms for sand.
For us, whose line goes on and on,
Dead is dead, and gone is gone.
 
Expunged? Wiped out?
Ah. vanished is good. Chris is right.
Anne Kilmer
South Florida
 
Michael Gochfeld wrote:
>
> Regardless of ethymological correctness, "extirpation" was once in
> widespread use for the elimination of a local population or probably
> more often for the elimination of a species from a geographic entity.
> Thus a species may be "extirpated" from New Jersey.  It does seem that
> "locally extinct" is being used more widely.  Someone once published a
> short column (perhaps in Science) suggesting the word "extotion", but it
> never took off.
>
> "Extirpation" was also used to describe campaigns to eliminate exotic
> species although I suppose "elimination" would suffice.
>
> M. Gochfeld
>
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