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frogmarch

(12,251 posts) Wed Jul 6, 2016, 10:50 PM Jul 2016

Pronunciation of Nesticidae? [View all]

I wish I knew how to pronounce the family name of the spiders commonly called nesticids (which I’d also like to know how to say).

Anyone know how to pronounce Nesticidae and nesticid? I can't find the info online anywhere.

Here’s a nesticid spider in Baltic amber:

Thanks!

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Pronunciation of Nesticidae? [View all] frogmarch Jul 2016 OP

ooh Let's get some dino DNA!!! lapfog_1 Jul 2016 #1

haha, well, frogmarch Jul 2016 #3

I think it's... 2naSalit Jul 2016 #2

Thank you! frogmarch Jul 2016 #4

Sort of depends on where the root comes from... HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #5

I agree 2naSalit Jul 2016 #6

I think 'biologese' is a wonder as a constructed language HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #7

I enjoy the construction of biological nomenclature HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #8

Interestingly 2naSalit Jul 2016 #9

Around here, kids are now taught to read via "whole language" HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #10

I think you 2naSalit Jul 2016 #11

I was trained that it was vain to name a species after oneself... HereSince1628 Jul 2016 #12