Re: Dead Horses?

From: Don Martinson llmen at wi.rr.com> on 2002.04.22 at 15:30:04(8588) >Very sorry about the accidental quote-only mail I just sent... > >I was only going to comment briefly that the species name "musciverous" >suggests the meaning "musky"... > >I'm not good enough with my Latin to know if that really IS what it means >(lots of people have made mistakes with plausible etymologies before, and I'm >one of them), but it certainly sounds plausible. > Actually, the word musca (singular), -ae (plural), being the Latin for fly, I would guess that the name might suggest being attractive to flies. I can't say specifically about Helicodiceros, but for many of these, the smell is beyond musky. -- Don Martinson +More Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com

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