Common name | Squaretail |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
Country | United States (contiguous states) |
Locality | |
Ref. | Whiteley, A.R., B.E. Penaluna, E.B. Taylor, S. Weiss, A. Abadia-Cardoso, D. Gomez-Uchida, I. Koizumi and P. Trotter, 2019 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | morphology |
1st modifier | |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'Squaretailed', i.e., with a square tail; 'square', i.e., four sided figure, from Old French 'esquare, esqire' from Vulga Latin 'exquadra, exquadrare' (p. 496 in Ref. 11979); 'tail', from prehistoric Germanic 'taglaz' (German 'zagel', i.e., penis; Swedish 'tagel', i.e., horsehair) from Indo-European 'doklos', i.e., something long and thin (p. 519 in Ref. 11979). Also in Ref. 3549. |