Or is ther anybody else wondering about the same things as me..?

Why is it so hard for people to use scientific names?

Why are people using "shortened-words" (<-- don´t know the proper word..), such as "ijcp" and similar..

I try to help people with animals/herptiles and animal/herptilerelated problems, but as I am from Sweden we do not allways use the same common names for different species. Now, the problems would be easy to solve. If posters just would put in a scientific name, wich works all over the world..

And maybe in the first post, using a full common/scientific name of the animal..

Just wondering..

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I always use the scientific name for tarantulas, but I dont so much with reptiles I should but its remembering them all

Funny that you use the scientific names for tarantulas and not as much for reptiles.. The point of using them is the same..

I do not mean that you all should use the scientific names on really common names, such as cornsnakes and ballpythons..

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It's so hard because it's well.. it's a lot easier for someone whose first language is English to remember "Corn Snake" than "Elaphe Guttatta", names like Bearded Dragon, Water Dragon, they're simple, basic, easy to remember, vocabulary that's easy to spell and pronounce because they're real words.

Remember latin names is not easy, spelling them is hard, and remembering them is hard because they are not words we would ever use.

Also - many people don't know the latin names. So if you have someone posting

Can you help me with my Pogona vitticeps?

Half the people on the forum aren't going to know what that is - in order to help them, people would have to look up what that species is before posting. Which means some people just won't bother to join in the discussion because they don't know what the discussion is about.

I think most people know the more common latin names but certainly not newbies who are the ones who need the help most - and there are hundreds of reptiles that I would have to look up the latin names for, for every 10 that I remember.

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I see your point, but..

If I would search for info on an animal that sometimes have more that one common name, I will have more than enough with hits on for example google, if I then type in the scientific name, the numbers of hits will be less and the information probably more accurate..

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I don't know any Latin. So using the English translation of the reptiles is much easier for me.

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Conform to my beliefs and ideas or thou shalt be spanked for not being a RFUK-Bot! For i art a Nazi German! (or so i have been told)
My Reptiles
0.1.0 Amel Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata guttata)
1.0.0 Snow Corn Snake(Elaphe guttata guttata)
0.1.0 Colombian Rainbow Boa(Epicrates cenchria maurus)
0.1.0 Honduras Boa
0.1.0 Blizzard Leopard Gecko(Eublepharis Macularius)
1.1.0 Dwarf Sand Gecko (Stendoactylus Sthenodactylus)
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons (Adults)(Pogona vitticeps)
0.0.1 Bearded Dragons (Hatchlings)(Pogona vitticeps)
0.0.2 Bearded Pygmy Chameleons
0.0.2 European Tree Frogs
0.0.1 Horsfield Tortoise (Testudo horsfieldii)


I am super noodles.

When I've tried to search for info using scientific names google always seems to bring up loads of foreign sites...

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its because I have kept tarantulas for a while and when I first got into them I knew them by their common names, but I learned all of their scientific names because thats what is commonly used on the tarantula forums.

But on here the common names are always used and seeing as I havnt been keeping reps that long I just go with the common names. I agree though it is better to use the scientific names to be more accurate

I guess it depends how uncommon it is and how many variations on the name there are, a lot of the smaller asian lizards seem to have 5 or so various different "common" names, in which case it makes more sense to use and search for latin names.

But 99% of the posts here are about captive bred, commonly kept - or at least, commonly seen in the UK / USA / Europe so people just get used to knowing the english names.

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Good to "hear" your thoughts about this..

I was "raised" with the scientific names.. (The second name I learned was Eublepharis macularius.. =) ) Because it was, and still is (to me) the easiest way to avoid missunderstandings when I am discussing herptiles with "non-swedes"..

How do you do when it comes to discussing subspecies then?

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