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geckodan said:
Looking at yours links Sdaji, its seems it's widespread useage on this site is by two people (Magpie and Nephrurus) each referring to the same useage on the one ad.
The most appropriate names based on description and appearance are:
N.levis - Three lined Knob Tailed Gecko
N.laevissimus - Smooth Knob Tailed Gecko.
This is the way it always was until Wilson and Swan came out and buggered it all up.
:lol:
I know people love to argue on APS, but it must be a very slow controversy week if we're resorting to my usage of a common name! :lol:
Okay, so now you're using the name you suggested I use for N. levis for N. laevissimus! Make up your mind
Nephrurus levis hardly has three distinctive lines. "Three lined knob tailed gecko" apart from being too much of a mouthful to be a common name which would stick, is misleading as if you didn't know what you were holding, and were asked if it was a three lined knob tailed gecko, you'd assume three lined knob tailed geckoes had three big bold lines on them and figure you must have some other form of knob tailed gecko.
It's a very funny thing to be arguing about :lol: Shouldn't people be too busy arguing about the evils of pet shops, the stupidity of Steve Irwin, the ethics of wild collecting or that whole venomoid thing? :lol:
People will always be using different common names, it's an unfortunate thing, but it has been going on for a long time and won't stop soon. I like Chondro, others like green python (incidentally, not all green pythons are green), I like Stumpy tail, other like, well, about half a dozen others for that species... I like spotted python, others like small blotched python, others still just call them Children's pythons, some call them other things (actually, I don't even like the name 'spotted python', but it's the one I use at the moment for want of a better alternative).
If you want to argue about scientific names, by all means go for it as there are hard rules to follow (which are even followed a fair bit of the time!), so you can get somewhere. Common names are open slather, which is one of the reasons I've never been a fan of them. We all know I'm talking about Nephrurus levis, surely that's enough. If you want to call them something else, that's fine too, just get the scientific name right and I won't complain
