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Hi Stelio, my Greek is fairly sparse, but it occurred to me that the scientific Latin "Monodon monoceros" could perhaps be related to the form μόνο rather than μόνον? Guess it depends on gender and case, so I'm just asking. Otherwise presumably the last letter of μόνον has been elided in the transfer
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