shortest epithet

[Robert H. Cowie]

Ba humbugi Solem, 1983, a Pacific island land snail, family Charopidae.

RC


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Another contender, a genuine current species:

Bombacaceae Adansonia za Baill.
in Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 7. ii. (1890) 845 et Hist. pl. Madag. Atlas t.
79 C, 79D, 79 I.

("za" or "zabe" being the local vernacular name of this tree)

PvR