Exobiology Classification

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Ordinary people use common names and not Linnean binomial nomenclature anyway.

No one uses Homo Sapiens, mammal, ursine, porcine, or cetacean? I did mention the vague middle ground between "That thar's an anteater.", and "That's a mammalia xenarthra pilosa vermilingua..."

Though that does go back to anything remotely similar looking to a known animal will get called something similar regardless of how absurd it may be scientifically. Large slow moving shelled grazing heterotrophs will get called land crabs or tortoises even if they are blue with 16 eyes, 6 legs, and spit gastric acid when annoyed.