Monique and the group:
How about these:
http://www.best.com/~atta/taxonomy.htmlhttp://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/HBS/BOGUS/menke.html
This is a link on the second page, but I couldn't get into it this morning:
http://insects.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
Hope these are what you were looking for.
John
Dr. John Bohmfalk
Associate Professor of Biology
Hastings College
Hastings, NE 68901
jbohmfalk at hastings.edu
(402) 461-7470
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> From: Monique Reed
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 5:50 PM
> To: plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Subject: Bizarre/Interesting/Humorous binomials
>> In the Great Computer Crash of '99, I lost two bookmarks for pages
> that list odd, funny, unusual, or punny binomials for plants, animals,
> and microbes. Does anyone on the list happen to have any they can
> post? We're at the nomenclature stage of teaching grad and undergrad
> systematic botany, and it would liven things up to have some fun
> examples.
>> Thanks,
> Monique Reed
> Texas A&M
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