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Re: It's here...The Czerkas book
> Incidentally, for an animal apparently without wings (sensu my
> observations on the juvenile Epidendro) the use of the appositive noun
> -_pteryx_ is interesting and ... perhaps ... politically motivated.
"-pteryx" is sometimes used to mean "feather", e.g. _Archaeopteryx_,
_Sinosauropteryx_. The _Scansoriopteryx heilmanni_ holotype is supposed to have
preserved filaments, right?
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