Life+Today.+Example+Species

{$page} include component="page" wikiName="wikids" page="_menuoptions" < Prev + More > Next include component="page" wikiName="wikids" page="_close" __Latin names__ Since Linnaeus, the scientific name for any living thing is made from Latin names for its genus and its species. So the scientific name for the blue whale is //Balaenoptera musculus//. The genus name is given a capital letter. These names are often shortened with just the first letter of the genus, like //B. musculus, A. muscaria, B. smithi// and so on. The names are written in //__italics__// (letters leaning over).
 * [[image:Faroe_stamp_402_blue_whale_(Balaenoptera_musculus)_crop.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Amanita_muscaria_01.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Brachypelma_edit.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Pink_rose_albury_botanical_gardens.jpg width="150" height="150"]] ||
 * **//Balaenoptera musculus//** || **//Amanita muscaria//** || **//Brachypelma smithi//** || **//Rosa odorata//** ||
 * [[image:Black-wildebeest-aka-gnu.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Jelly_Monterey.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Rhizocarpon_geographicum01.jpg width="150" height="150"]] || [[image:Olive_baboon.jpg width="150" height="150"]] ||
 * **//Connochaetes taurinus//** || **//Chrysaora quinquecirrha//** || **//Rhizocarpon geographicum//** || **//Papio anubis//** ||