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Originally Posted by ChrisR  Also, it is better to call them "scientific names", not Latin names - because the names derive as much from Greek as they do Latin  |
I agree "Scientific names" are much better.
And often are just latinized versions of English names -
Darwin's frog Rhinoderma darwinii
Darwin's Nothura Nothura darwinii
Bradfield's Hornbill Tockus bradfieldi
Burchell's Coucal Centropus burchelli (though now thought possibly a subspecies)
Bill Gates & Paul McCartney have both had organisms names after them
(though I have no idea what).