re: #155 Dr Lizardo

Ladies and gentlemen, Lizards of all persuasions, I give you…..

…the German language!

I have a book on mollusks somewhere that includes a (long) list of species — the formal genus/species followed by their common names in several languages, one of them German. There were many blanks in the other languages, but every. single. one. had a German “common” name.