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IN NATURE for January 13, p. 49, two writers of authority call this snail Limnæa peregra. The word “peregra” is not Latin—a fact which at one time had penetrated to the consciousness of most concho-logists and malacologists but appears to have been again forgotten.
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B., F. The Name of the Pond Snail. Nature 111, 150 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111150d0
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