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To: Red Badger
"Evoluticauda"--cauda is Latin for tail (of an animal), as in the constellation Serpens Cauda. Evolvere, evolvo, evolvi, evolutus, -a, -um means to roll out or roll open. Evolutio means unrolling (of a scroll), hence reading.

So the genus name has something to do with the shape of the tail, and nothing to do with Charles Darwin.

7 posted on 09/18/2024 10:18:26 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
That should be "subgenus" not "genus."

Have no idea how they taste but too small to be served in a sub.

8 posted on 09/18/2024 10:20:23 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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