Hebejeebie

[Stuart Fullerton]

taxa puns

i might add, that there are many many of these in the entomology world.

including the famous  Ah so  (i forget who is credited for that)(Roy Snelling???)

a chap many years ago who reworked the bee genus Bombus  and gave the sugenera
megabombus, pyrobombus, atomicbombus (??) and nucleobombus(??)


i believe that recently a coleopterist - dr paul skelly   gave  species names to
many new species of a flightless scarab group that were names of flightless birds.
(can not find the paper at the moment)

and i am sure that the list of taxonomic puns is vast -- in all the groups.

pierre deleporte wrote:

> off-list :
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I'm pleased that you're pleased to read the HBJB stuff.
> I'm only frustrated not to pick a single word of this joke. Could you
> please explain it to a poor non-native-English-speaking Frenchie ?
>
> Thanks
> Pierre
>
> A 08:35 24/03/2003 -0500, vous avez ?crit :
> >ya all made my day
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >after a mental bad weekend with the world, twas nice to read  HBJB stuff!.
> >not being a scholar, not sure how to apply this last it to the world today.
> >
> >but things in the bug closet work without a radio and without a t.v. so today
> >will be good!.
> >
> >cheers!  rof
> >
> >Adolf Ceska wrote:
> >
> > > According to the Principle V of the International Code of Botanical
> > > Nomenclature,
> > >
> > > "Scientific names of taxonomic groups are treated as Latin regardless of
> > > their derivation."
> > >
> > > If you read "Hebejeebie" as any classical non-English scholar would (or
> > > should) you will get
> > >
> > > "He-be jeb je", which - unfortunately - in Czech means: "Hebe - f... them!"
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely,
> > >
> > > Adolf Ceska, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> >
> >--
> >Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod
> >Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO
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> Pierre Deleporte
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--
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Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO
Box 162368, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2368, USA. stuartf at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
OR stuartf at biology.ucf.edu  (407) 823-6540 (no voice mail)
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