URL: http://www.biolib.cz/cz/forumboard/id21/?messageID=28746#msgid28746
Odkazová funkce: [[f:21,messageid=28746;2010-08-13 06:23:04]]
Dear BioLib,
Last week I started reading about the Suckerfish Dropdowns dropdown-menu. I noticed today that I had misspelled one of the fish names on the menu, "Remoras," as "Remores" as I was typing the html code for the dropdown-menu into my Text Editor.
I then went online to Wikipedia to see what all of the fish names meant, out of curiosity, and discovered on this page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echeneis_(genus), that they had written there: "Echeneis is a genus of remora."
After finding this page on your website, http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id43309/, it became clear that they meant to say: "Echeneis is a genus of Echeneidae (remoras and sharksuckers)."
I guess because the plural of "remora" is also spelled "remoras," people get the two words with different meanings confused.
At any rate, I joined Wikipedia minutes later and made a correction on the web page, changing "remora" to "remoras."
The problem is there are other web pages on Wikipedia that will have to be changed in order to get the shorthand family-name "remoras" properly distinguished from the genus name "remora."
Thank you for your informative website,
Bennie