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Re: Arthurdactylus conandoyle....what?

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Subject: Re: Arthurdactylus conandoyle....what?
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 16:57:19 -0400
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Quoting "Simon M. Clabby" <dinowight@yahoo.co.uk>:

> Could someone plase halp me clear up a little
> conundrum for me. Arthurdactylus takes it's species
> name from Arthur Conan Doyle, but in some places it's
> called conandoylensis, rather than conandoylei. Which
> is correct?

Well, unless the species name is intended to indicate that the animal actually 
lived on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it had better be _conandoylei_.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

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