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Subject: [OM] Re: What are the odds :-)
From: "Scott Peden" <scotpeden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:47:01 -0700
Hey that's cool!

When I lived in Glendale Ca, found a "10" legged green spider repelling off
the shower wall, into my face.... when I screamed he seemed as afraid as I,
so I got a jar and captured him, but by the time I found the college in
Glendale that looked into spiders, he had died.

Someone there told me if I found another one how to treat the jar and to get
it to them in under 48 hours, and 3 months later, I found anther, but I
didn't have to scream this time.

I got him dropped off and queried about the last time I'd been in Costa
Rica, which I never had been in, and we'd been there for about a year then.

His front 2 'legs' we're for eating Fungus.

A month later I was told they had no idea what he was, barely could find his
family, I could suggest a name...... alas, the only used part of it, and of
course Latinized it.

I suggested "Ziggy Star Dust" You know the spider from Mars.... so the name
is something like Ziggadaus or something similar.

Now I just find plants that aren't suppose to be in my physical locality,
but nothing completely new, as far as I know.


-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dean Hansen
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:57 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: What are the odds :-)

Andrew recently wrote: 

Indeed it isn't really because there are lots of them left to be 
discovered. But most of them are bacteria.
One of my university lecturers had a marsupial mouse named after him 
in 1975 - Ningaui timealyii.
The mere fact that I know someone with a mammal named after him 
should render you all speechless with awe and thus respectful.
Even though it is a very small beastie, way out there in the desert.
I remember when he mentioned it in a drunken conversation one night I 
spluttered a bit and looked foolish.
http://ningaui.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilbara_Ningaui
The name Ningaui means 'little desert man' and Tim always delighted 
in this because he is a rather short and ferocious creature himself.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Working with insects, it's often not too hard to come up with 
undiscovered species that must be named.  I had ten for my thesis, so, 
of course, my wife's middle name is now immortalized in entomology as 
Diamesa colenae, for a small mosquito-like fly found in Wyoming.  
"timealyii" and "colenae" are called patronymics.  It can be fun, 
however, to come up with something descriptive.  My new species 
included:  Diamesa cheimatophila, "lover of winter."   D. chiobates, "he 
who walks on the snow."  D. nivicavernicola, "snow cave dweller." No one 
yet has been rendered speechless with awe and respect, but the midge I 
mentioned a week or two ago finding on the Beartooth Plateau was 
subsequently described as Trichotanypus hanseni.   
Dean    

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