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

[Dennis During]

n. sp. = new species

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 14:48 Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> 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:
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> "Trumbicula fujigmo" is not a joke:
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> tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd<http://tinyurl.com/7jtjpajd>
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> Page 58. The species was named in 1950.
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> JL
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM Jonathan Lighter <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.
> >
> > The nomenclatural principle that anything now goes, however, still seems
> to
> > go.
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> > JL
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
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> > > I believe I mentioned the mite once before, but if not or even so:
> > >
> > > "[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 "
> > >
> > > (Qitd. by Mark Liberman at _Language Log_, 2006:
> > > http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html<
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html>)
> > >
> > > JL
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> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com<mailto:
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> > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net
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> > > > > also "Afro-American"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > No worse tha using a French surname combined with a word of
> > > > Native-American origin, e.g. as in
> > > >
> > > > "Nicot[iana] tabac[um]"
> > > >
> > > > I reckon.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > -Wilson
> > > > =96=96=96
> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange
> complaint
> > > t=
> > > o
> > > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > =96Mark Twain
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