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Nanna leucostoma
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Subspecies
Original
description
Synonyms
Cordylura
leucostoma Zetterstedt, 1846
Amaurosoma leucostoma (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Amaurosoma leucostomum (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Nanna leucostoma (Zetterstedt, 1846)
Note: The word "leucostoma" is often regarded
as an adjective and is then adjusted to the
gender of the genus name (as "leucostomus, -a,
-um"). Indeed, the greek
"stoma" has been adopted in the Latin language
in words like "stomacace", "stomachicus", and
"stomachus", but the use as an adjective in
the form "stomus, -a, -um" is not known to me.
The word is not
listed in those dictionaries of classic and
modern Latin that I have consulted and thus I
have no evidence for its use as an
adjective. In contrast, the word "stoma"
is here combined with another unmodified greek
word ("white mouth") and this is strong
evidence that the whole word is a greek noun,
not a latinized adjective. Thus, I follow here
Article 31.2.2. of the Code and regard the
species epithet as a noun in apposition that
does not change with the gender of the genus
name.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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