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1 month agoThe Latin name is fun though.
Both the generic name Lamium and the specific epithet galeobdolon were used by Pliny the Elder in the first century AD.[43] The name galeobdolon has several possible origins.[44] It may come from the Latin words galeo meaning “to cover with a helmet” and dolon meaning “a fly’s sting”, or it may come from the Greek words γαλέη (galéē) “weasel; marten; polecat”, and βδόλος (bdólos) “foetid smell”, an allusion to the smell of the leaves. The latter interpretation is likely the source of the old common name ‘yellow weasel-snout’.[45]


Is that remarkable? The authors make the prevalence of parasites as the big takeaway from their study, but bizarrely they don’t cite any other papers of typical parasite load in this fish species or others. I need a frame of reference.