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funny biological names - got any?

Tom J Parry parry at yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Wed Jan 5 21:27:30 EST 1994


Paul Repacholi (zrepachol at cc.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
: In article <2fc8v8$mc7 at gap.cco.caltech.edu>, robin at cco.caltech.edu (Robert C. Colgrove) writes:
: > A formal name has not been decided upon but for now the 
: > discoverers are calling it "Eric"
: > (Monty Python lives!)

I have a friend who has ambitions to name her children Eschericia (sp?) Melanosgaster
and Drosophilla , I have suggested a few other bacteria as being suitable - almost
aristocratic names - eg Pseudomonas Putida, ..... 

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.



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