Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Give an example of an animal that has one scientific name but two or more common names?

And name the common names.

Give an example of an animal that has one scientific name but two or more common names?
mountain lion, couger, puma, %26amp; panther are the common names


the scientific name is Felis concolor
Reply:A plant called the arrowhead is common in wetlands of the midwestern United States.





Arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia Willd.


Other names: Duck potato, tule potato, Indian potato, swamp potato, arrow plantain, arrowleaf, common arrowleaf, broad-leaved arrowhead, wapato (also wappeto)
Reply:Pecari tajacu is the scientific name. Its two common names are the collared peccary or javelina. This is a pig like animal native to the southwest US.
Reply:Coloptes cafer, the flicker, has about 50 other common names, including yellowhammer and highhole. Between them, the black and white crappies have more than a hundred.


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