Talk:Melampus nuxeastaneus

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Name is Wrong
"nuxeastaneus" is an extremely obvious error (probably a scanno) for "nuxcastaneus". The first is meaningless, but the second is Latin "nux", meanng "nut" and "castaneus", which is an adjective derived from "castanea", which means "chestnut (tree or nut)". This makes perfect sense if you know what a chestnut looks like, and also if you know that there's another species named Melampus castaneus, named in 1818 (though there seems to be some confusion as to whether the specific epithet was "castanea", which would be a noun in apposition, or "castaneus", which would be an adjective agreeing in gender with the generic name). Since the preferred name wasn't available when Kuroda published in 1949, he would have altered the name slightly to avoid a conflict.

It's true that there are other hits on Google with "nuxeastaneus", but there are also some with "nuxcastaneus", such as WMSDB. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:58, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * After a little digging, I found the original publication of M. castaneus, which was for "Voluta castanea, Die Kastanienbraune Faltenschnecke". Since "Voluta" is feminine, and the German name translates to "chestnut-brown", that confirms that M. castaneus should be correct- which doesn't look good for the credibility of the Taiwania reference. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:34, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

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