[Ads-l] Mojo in science. Latin continues to expand its vocabulary.

[Chris Waigl]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:06 PM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> I *think* it's simply "new spcecies" ...? "sp." in taxonomy is the
> abbreviation for species.
>

This is my understanding as well. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_nova

There's a ton of these little conventions in biological taxonomy. I usually
only encounter *sp. *alone (as in *Picea sp. *or *Salix sp.) *meaning any
species of the genus (that is, any kind of spruce or willow).

Chris


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