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http://dx.doi.org/10.5635/ASED.2021.37.3.001

The Etymology of Scientific Names for Korean Mammals  

Jo, Yeong-Seok (Department of Biology Education, Daegu University)
Koprowski, John L. (Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming)
Baccus, John T. (Natural Resources Management, Texas Tech University)
Yoo, Jung-Sun (Biological and Genetic Resources Utilization Division, National Institute of Biological Resources)
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Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity / v.37, no.3, 2021 , pp. 255-272 More about this Journal
Abstract
Etymologies are explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 to 2,000 years ago. When Linnaeus in the mid-1700s began naming animals with a binomial nomenclature, he based names on the Latin Grammatical Form. Since many names have Latin or Greek roots, the name for an animal is the same throughout the world because Latin is no longer a spoken language and meanings of names will not evolve or change. In his use of Latin or a Latinized word for the genus and species, Linnaeus used descriptive words that will always be the same. Notwithstanding the importance of etymologies for scientific names, no study has addressed the etymology of scientific names for Korean mammals. Here, we list etymologies for scientific names of 127 mammal species, 84 genera, 32 families, and 8 orders from Korea. The origins of etymologies are mostly based on morphology, color of pelage, behavior, distribution, locality, country name, or a person's name. This paper will be useful for new students and trained scholars studying Korean mammals.
Keywords
etymology; Greek; Korea; Latin; mammals; scientific name;
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