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At the risk of prolonging a tangent, there is one famous anagram in the
hallowed halls of taxonomy: exercising the clause in the International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature which permits photos to be used when describing
new species, Sir Peter Scott and some colleagues published a paper giving
formal status to the "Loch Ness Monster" using the fraudulent photo they
had made of its fictitious flipper. The scientific name they gave it was
"Nessiteras rhombopteryx", which translates as "Rhomboid-finned Ness
monster" - but is also an anagram, clearly intentional, for "Monster hoax
by Sir Peter S".
Peace,
Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315
http://www.icb.ufmg.br/~dyanega/
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
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