A Puma by any other name
Grkovich, Alex
agrkovich at tmpeng.com
Tue Apr 2 10:56:54 EST 2002
How about Nymphalis antiopa: Mourning Cloak, Camberwell Beauty, Trauermantel
etc. (there are some more common names for this species in Eurasia, but I
can't think of them right now.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. James Adams [SMTP:jadams at em.daltonstate.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:32 AM
> To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: A Puma by any other name
>
> Mike Gochfield wrote:
>
> >But this species [the Puma, Cougar, etc.] is the example that comes to
> >mind whenever I talk about a
> >species that is called many different things in different parts of its
> >range. I
> >doubt that there are any butterflies that share this nomenclatorial fate.
>
> Mike, where have you been? This is exactly what we've been talking
> about. There are lots of butterflies that have been given multiple common
>
> names. I would suggest that multiple "common" names for a single species
> is probably the rule rather than the exception for species that are
> widespread.
>
> For instance:
> Monarch, Wanderer
> Painted Lady, Cosmopolitan
> Mourning Cloak, Camberwell Beauty
>
> And don't forget one of the main points that many simply choose to ignore
> -- all the common names that these same bugs have in different
> languages. Anybody even know what butterflies Ken was talking about the
> other day when he used the common names 'traurnitsa' , which he pointed
> out
> was the same as 'suruvaippa'?
>
> Mike did correctly point out that the discussion is "about "official
> >English names" or maybe even "official American-English names",
> >recognizing that
> >speakers of other languages aren't going to use our English names. That
> >gets us
> >out of the bind of what names are "commonly" used.
>
>
> James
>
>
> James K. Adams
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