Derivatio nominis (1 Viewer)

I just received this mail from Ben Creisler:

I am passing along a message from Mo Hassan (apparently his email did not post to the Vertpaleo list):


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I have been working on a dictionary of the etymology of the scientific names of mammals (both living and extinct). It is now available to view online at this link: https://www.tinyurl.com/mammaletymology. Please share with interested colleagues, and/or suggest edits. Please contact me with any comments or suggestions ([email protected]).

Thank you,

Mo Hassan

Hope it is of interest to you all,

Fred

Fred. many thanks for this excellent attachment. I have already started work on a Key to the Scientific Names of Mammals (to complement the HMW series and any spin-offs), and will find this very useful.

Hi Fred,

a very useful work. Thanks for sharing the link.

Some less ...

Just to save anyone the trouble (looking/searching for them) ...

I have forwarded links to Mo Hassan, of the following missing references:
• Cabrera, A. (1939)
• Wettstein, O. (1927)
• Baudelot, S. (1972) ... on ResearchGate
• Middleton, M. D. (1983) ... on ResearchGate
• Tong, Y. & J. Wang. (2006) ... on ResearchGate
• Walton, A. H. (1990) ... on ResearchGate

+ the OD of the all missing "Prionailurus bengalensis anastasiae", which I assume is "Felis anastasiae" (Satunin 1904)

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Hello,

Thank you Fred Ruhe for sharing! I appreciate the interest.

Please feel free to share or suggest further edits; the resource is far from perfect!

Mo Hassan

Welcome to BirdForum, Mo!

As a tiny welcome gift (even if we're suddenly dealing with Non-birds ) I can also support you with a link to:

• Teilhard de Chardin, P. & C.C. Young. 1931. Fossil mammals from the late Cenozoic of northern China. Paleontologia Sinica (Series C. Volume IX, Fascicle 1) ... = here.

But be patient, it can take a while to download/open.

Regarding your missing "Myospalax chaoyatseni" I guess you´re looking for "Siphneus chaoyatseni Teilhard and Young (sp. nov.)", on p.24 (or see attached excerpt). I thereby assume you ought to look for a Mr "Ya Tsen Chao" (or written the other way around, in a local/Chinese way). Who he was? I haven't got a clue.

Could it possibly be: Ya-Tseng Chao, Author of for example; Brachiopod fauna of the Chihsia Limestone. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 6:83–120 (1927), or Carboniferous and Permian spiriferids of China (Geological survey of China) Palaeontologica Sinica. Series B. Vol. XI. Fasc. 1, p.6+. (1929) ... ?

Either way: Good luck finding him!

Björn

PS. In he same journal you will as well find; "Chalicomys broilii*" (p.4-7; "... in honour of Professor F. Broili of Munich", on p.7), "Paralactaga suni" (p.8), "Pararhizomys hipparionum" (p.11) ... all noted as "sp. nov.", the latter also as "gen. nov.", ... and onwards.

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*Not listed in your Dictionary. Might be worth looking through it all.

Calalp said:

I thereby assume you ought to look for a Mr "Ya Tsen Chao" (or written the other way around, in a local/Chinese way).

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Or possibly "Chao Yat-sen" (cf. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China -- given the date of the document, this might be relevant).

But having said that, I don't find any references to that name.

Also note what's written in Nature : a Weekly Journal of Science. Vol. 130 (December, 1932):

As two years ago the lamentable death of the eminent young Chinese palaeontologist, Ya-Tseng Chao, at the hands of bandits had cost the district magistrate of Chao Tung Hsien permanent dismissal from office, such precaution is carefully taken by his successor. ...

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From here (Note; this "Abstract" is equal of the full text, on p.877) or here, (but strange looking scans on the latter link).

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Correction: Temminck was no illustrator, as mentioned. I'm not aware of any illustrations from his hand.

Thanks Björn and JustinJansen, I will update the dictionary with your edits.