For the longest time, I thought Kentucky bluegrass was native to North America, but it’s not. It just does well in Kentucky. Canada thistle sounds like it’s native to Canada, but that’s just where it was creeping into the United States from. There’s other examples I’ve come across that I can’t remem…

No, argentea/us or argentata/us both mean silver. In contrast, argentinensis would mean ‘of Argentina’ and argentinicola would mean ‘inhabiter of Argentina’

[image] mftasp: argentinensis If I discover a new species there, can I call it X porteñensis instead?

[image] egordon88: can I call it X porteñensis instead? How about mespotamicus (from Entre Rios)?

[image] yayemaster: Herring Gull-Definitely not found in Argentina as the epithet states(Larus argentatus) Argentatus means silvery, not found in Argentina.

You’d have to drop the tilde.

It’s not a tilde, ‘‘ñ’’ is in fact another letter in the alphabet of a few languages like Spanish, with a different pronunciation. So Spanish speakers (like me) have 27 letters in our alphabet instead of 26.

Yes I should’ve said you’d have to replace it with an N. Unless there’s another way to latinize it.

Here in New Mexico we respect and use the 27th letter even if we occasionally can’t use it in some electronic writing and have to resort to corruptions like “pinyon.”

[image] jnstuart: “pinyon.” Well, in that case you can google ‘‘pine nut in Spanish’’, copy the translation and paste it on your text.

The name sounds native, but it's not

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And that it’s a very ‘‘tricky’’ name, I mean, I would really believe it’s from Norway just from the name.

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