what's your favorite latin name?

[NYCspiderGuy]

Is there some nickname that I have never heard?

Did say "T" - but 100 points for Gryffendor for the Original Proposition(er).

 

[hamfoto]

yeah, Phoneyusa is probably the funniest! kind of fits...

 

[Cirith Ungol]

I personally am partial to mons veneris. (I saw no restrictions on source)

someone had to post this. :?

Where is that? Mars?

 

[NYCspiderGuy]

Google it...


(I am afraid of the FCC - Colin's boy)

 

[galeogirl]

I like Lasiodora parahybana, it just rolls off the tongue so nicely.

 

[Cirith Ungol]

Google it...

HAHAHA... who would have guessed... well not me. :8o Could have been Mars... because i'd be just as far from one of those at the moment

 

[Lorgakor]

I just love to say Poecilotheria. It makes me sound smart.

 

[darkeye]

Poecilotheria subfusca (and I pronounce it the way Andrew Smith of the BTS did... and now always will!)
PO-kill-a-theer-ee-ah sub-FUS-ka

Also, I think Cyriocosmus elegans is fantastic.

And Ephebopus cyanognathus!

Ja Ne!

M

 

[xelda]

BTW, if you dont know how to pronounce a name, here ya go http://atshq.org/articles/beechwp1.html

Did anyone else catch this on the link? I thought a scientific name ending in i sounded like "eye" but if it ended in ii it would make an "ee" sound.

 

[aaronrefalo]

i like most avicularia versicolor..but i like psalmopheus irimia...i like the ending pheus...

Aaron

 

[harrymaculata]

i like cyriopagapus and poecilotheria and i think heteroscodra maculata sounds cool but im biased caus this is my fav spec hands down

 

[phil]

My favourite name, no longer valid has to be Xenodnedrophila, shame it went.
break down of the name from gallons paper

Xeno = strange (no spermathecae) dendro = tree, phila loving

strange tree loving spider

had to be one of the best names ever

 

[Krapf0n]

Chromatopelma (kroh-maa-tuh-PEL-muh)
cyaneopubescens (sy-aan-ee-o-pyoo-BEH-sinz)

i guess i will never learn to spell it right, so i just stick with saying chroma .

 

[Hedorah99]

Hysterocrates gigas. This one always just kinda sounded menacing to me.

 

[harrymaculata]

My favourite name, no longer valid has to be Xenodnedrophila, shame it went.
break down of the name from gallons paper

Xeno = strange (no spermathecae) dendro = tree, phila loving

strange tree loving spider

had to be one of the best names ever

didn't know thats what it meant now i know that im with you phil i am still waiting on slings of this species must get xeno's :drool: :drool: ill still call em dat caus it sounds better,

 

[Crotalus]

Atrox - cruel, vicious
Such a fitting name

/Lelle

 

[DavidRS]

Hysterocrates gigas. This one always just kinda sounded menacing to me.

Sounds like some female-type medical procedure. I prefer Pseudoshapalopus spinulopus.

 

[baboons24]

I think I would have to go with stromatopelma satanus :evil: , it sounds like it could her you just because of it's presence, who knows one hasn't been seen since the early 1900's. It's the coolest latin name that i've heard.

 

[jw73]

Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
It sounds extremly poisonous.

 

[MizM]

My sons' favorite: Paraphysa scrotum.