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Re: [dinosaur] Xunmenglong, new compsognathid theropod from Lower Cretaceous of China



> Fun fact: "xunmenglong" is one of the popular Chinese names used for 
> *Velociraptor*. The authors must have known what they were doing with that 
> one...

Oh, great. Yet another case like:
*Fossa fossana*: the fanaloka/jabady. Not the fossa, which is *Cryptoprocta 
ferox*.
*Agouti*: the pacas, not the agoutis, which are *Dasyprocta*. Fortunately, 
*Agouti* is a junior synonym of *Cuniculus*.