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DR. J. W. EVANS'S letter in NATURE (July 7, p. 9) may serve as an excuse for commenting on certain names which have recently been introduced into zoological literature without sufficient regard for etymological principles. Bathosella and Leiosella (Polyzoa) may be given as examples of a series of new genera, proposed in 1917 and later years, with the derivations, as stated, bathos, depth, and leios, smooth, respectively. In these genera the entire Greek word is used, instead of its root, and the generic name is completed by the addition of a Latin diminutive termination. The suffix -sella is in any case likely to cause confusion in Polyzoa, among which -cella is the termination of many familiar generic names.
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HARMER, S. Scientific Names of Greek Derivation. Nature 112, 165 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112165a0
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