Talk:Scatopsidae

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The name might have an interesting etymology. Scatops (Scat- + ops) means literally "looks like shit". But it turns out that the genus on which the name is based is actually Scatopse (meaning, with some poetic license, "coming to the dung in the evening") which was fairly often written Scatops in what may be one of the more Freudian lapsi of zoological nomenclature... apparently the erroneous version was the one the family's describer knew of. One wonders what this guy thought... Dysmorodrepanis 19:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)