Etymologia: Pseudoterranova azarasi

摘要

To the Editor: Regarding the March 2011 Etymologia on Pseudoterranova azarasi ( 1), we think that someone literally missed the boat on the derivation of Pseudoterranova. Although the Greco-Latin amalgam, Pseudoterranova, translates to "false new earth," the generic name of the organism refers to the ship, the Terra Nova, which Robert Falcon Scott captained en route to Antarctica exactly 100 years ago in his ill-fated attempt to be the fi rst person to reach the South Pole