What Language Are Scientific Names

[saltynay]

I have Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita engraved on the back of my itouch.

 

[Yanks15]

I have Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita engraved on the back of my itouch.

Amen, brother!

 

[Truck]

 

[BigC]

To save you all the trouble;
Life is too short to dance with ugly women

 

[Buddyboy67]

Cracker jack pen to the educated moderator,lol...

 

[helterskelter]

an example:
mikrogeophagus ramirezi the 'mikro' standing for mini- and the 'geophagus' standing for earth eater

latin names are always spelt in lower case, in italics

The genus is a capital, species is lower case
so
Mikrogeophagus ramirezi is the correct expression.

If it ends in i this means it's in honour of someone.
May be the person who discovered it, or a scientist that described it.

 

[BigC]

Look up
Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linne)
&
Binominal nomenclature

If your interested.
ATB
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