Someone asked how marine life get their scientific name. So I replied:
Usually marine life names are divided into four categories. First would be the FAMILY, then GENUS, then SPECIES, and lastly COMMON NAME. However, Common Names can be deceiving as something in Perhentian would be called by a different name, say, in Sumatera.
So, let us concentrate on the first three categories. Let’s take the Pelagic Thresher Shark for example.
Threshers come from the family ALOPIIDAE. The Genus name would be ALOPIAS. Then the species would normally be determined by its characteristics. So this one is PELAGIC. So, its scientific name is ALOPIAS PELAGICUS. Sometimes the SPECIES is also determined by the name of the discoverer.
Like the HIMANTURA JENKINSKII..or Jenkin’s Whipray that you see in abundance off Tanjung Kerma in Perhentian.
QED
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