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Many animals were--and are--wonderfully well-named by taxonomists, following in Linnaeus' footsteps: this book is the key to their wisdom, and often their humor.
Calluna , although many variant garden forms are known, consists of only the one species, Calluna vulgaris . Erica (the name Linnaeus gave originally to both heath and heather), however, comprises several hundred species, nearly all found in the Cape of South Africa, with fewer than a dozen found in the rest of the world.
Although orca can mean a `dice box' (or a `little barrel'), it also means a `kind of whale, the great killer,' perhaps derived from Orcus . Surely it was in this sense that Linnaeus used it.
They went to its binomial Orcinus orca (Linnaeus 1758) to find a softer synonym and chose “Orca.”
(Traditional explanations include European encounters with Indians wearing red paint, or else the creative labeling system of 18 th -century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus.)