Re: Don't leave the girls out (was FW: Dinosaur Exhibit)

[Jonkeria@aol.com]

In a message dated 09/02/1999 2:01:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Dinogeorge@aol.com writes:

<< _Mononyx_ would translate as "one 
 claw" and is, I believe, not a preoccupied name. So if you want to use the 
 name for a dinosaur, simply find an appropriate but as yet unnamed specimen, 
 describe it, and name it. >>

I'm afraid that that great absorber of possilities in generic names, the 
Insecta, does indeed already have a _Mononyx_, which I believe is a 
heteropteran bug currently  considered a synonym of _Nerthra_ (not sure about 
that, though).

Sincerely,
Christian Kammerer