Okay, I know "ophio" snake, "phagus", eater...but for YEARS I've wondered what "hannah" means...
Thanks for any help...
SR
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? about king cobra name...
shelley7950
Aug 15, 2006 07:45 AM
Replies (3)
Sundberg
Aug 17, 2006 12:49 PM
A quote from the EMBL Reptile Database which in this particular case had a note on this:
"Etymology: "Ophiophagus" is derived from Greek, meaning "snake-eating" and hannah is derived from the name of tree-dwelling nymphs in Greek mythology (for the arboreal lifestyle)."
This is were I found it:
http://srs.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[REPTILIA-Species:'Ophiophagus_SP_hannah']
/Sundberg
shelley7950
Aug 21, 2006 09:57 AM
YAY!!!Thank you, thank you...so, basically what we've got is a snake eating tree nymph...I LOVE etymology...
SR
CKing
Jan 13, 2007 05:57 PM
>>A quote from the EMBL Reptile Database which in this particular case had a note on this:
>>
>>"Etymology: "Ophiophagus" is derived from Greek, meaning "snake-eating" and hannah is derived from the name of tree-dwelling nymphs in Greek mythology (for the arboreal lifestyle)."
>>
>>This is were I found it:
>>http://srs.embl-heidelberg.de:8000/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e [REPTILIA-Species:'Ophiophagus_SP_hannah']
>>
>>/Sundberg
If I had to guess, I would have guessed that Hannah was someone's surname.
