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

[Baker, John]

The article in which T. fujigmo was named can be found at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/parasitology/article/abs/harvest-mites-akidani-of-japan-and-the-far-east-and-their-relationship-to-the-autumnalis-group-of-trombiculid-mites/1BB356CE9E2F05C5C7615E70E447D1DA.  The first sentence of the extract reads, “Trombicula tamiyai and T. fujigmo n.sp. are described and figured from Japan and northern Burma respectively; the holotypes are in the U.S. National Museum.”

I’m not sure what is the meaning of “n.sp.,” which is not part of the italicized name in the original.  Note spelling?


John Baker


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Update:

"Trumbicula fujigmo" is not a joke:

tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd<http://tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd>

Page 58. The species was named in 1950.

JL

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com<mailto:wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>>
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> In the interest of full contextual disclosure, Liberman adduces evidence
> that T. fujigmo was an April Fool's joke.
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> The nomenclatural principle that anything now goes, however, still seems to
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> > I believe I mentioned the mite once before, but if not or even so:
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> > "[T]axonomists have been amusing themselves quietly for years, as names
> > suc=
> > h
> > as *Colon rectum* (a beetle),* Ba humbugi* (a snail), *Oedipus complex*
> (a
> > salamander) and *Ytu brutus* (a beetle) attest. Besides, how much
> disrepute
> > could commerce really bring to the discipline that brought the world
> > *Trombicula
> > fujigmo*, a mite whose name is an acronym for =93fuck you Jack, I got my
> > orders.=94 "
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> > (Qitd. by Mark Liberman at _Language Log_, 2006:
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> > > > also "Afro-American"?
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> > > No worse tha using a French surname combined with a word of
> > > Native-American origin, e.g. as in
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> > > "Nicot[iana] tabac[um]"
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> > > I reckon.
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