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funny biological names - got any?

Ed Rybicki ed at micro.uct.ac.za
Thu Jan 13 10:52:57 EST 1994


In article <2gk5p4INN936 at dns1.NMSU.Edu> rpeter at nmsu.edu (Peter Herman x5495) writes:
>From: rpeter at nmsu.edu (Peter Herman x5495)

>>I have a friend who has ambitions to name her children Eschericia (sp?) Melanosgaster

I know a retrovirologist (half of a couple affectionately know as "Jim-Barb") 
who named his cats "Calici" and "Parvo"....


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