From phma@oltronics.net Tue Sep 04 22:00:04 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 5 Sep 2001 05:00:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 89657 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2001 04:59:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Sep 2001 04:59:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.240) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Sep 2001 04:59:58 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 918CD3C477; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:59:53 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Questions and observations about taxonomy Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:59:52 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0109050059520X.05217@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat Is {panju} the correct term for a sponge, meaning animal of the phylum Porifera? Or is it the thing that holds water, whether it's the skeleton of said animal or a piece of cellulose foam? Are both millipedes and centipedes clacinki? Should the colloquial term {miptera} "bug" be applied to both Hemiptera and Homoptera, or should {moptera} be used for the latter? {salmone} includes both trout and salmon. The two terms are mixed in the genera, with no obvious arrangement. Can anyone think of a better common name for a pigeon than {tcacpi}? Does the term {xanto} include the mammoth as well as the elephants? (asked by nitcion) What exactly does {smani} mean? (asked by me a long time ago, with no answer, and again by nitcion) Is {gurni} the correct term inclusive of mavji, bavmi, zumri, e lo simsa? phma