You are mistaken, hobbyist make common names, like the examples you used. Those are akin to what local peoples call them.

You know like this, the natives in one area call this monitor, a barking toad leguaan. They did so because, when the run them over in the wet season, toads fly out of their mouths making a barking sound.

You may be right about consistancy. Some of these names will surely outlast many of the scientific names. FR

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