Questions tagged [scientific-names]

Turritopsis dohrnii is the binomial name of the immortal jellyfish. I know that those names are often only inspired by Latin and Greek so I was not wondering about the literal meaning but about the roots that were used to create this word. In…

For a book (let's say on cryptozoology) I need to come up with a scientific name for bigfoot. I'm thinking of using a literal translation of bigfoot for the genus. As typical in scientific naming, the genus will be followed by species and subspecies…

I was trying to express "Russian bear" in scientific terms. Ursus would be the bear part of it. But I really couldn't figure out how to express Russia. List of mammals of Russia gave me no hints. I did see terms alluding to Siberia, as in sibirica.…

I can't remember where to find a taxonomic Latin dictionary. I have to do a creative writing assignment, and I have to come up with a myriad of homo sapiens [sapiens] successors, so I and need taxonomic Latin terms —for things like, whatever “homo…