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Antonija Posted 18 years ago
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0Hi, can you, please, tell me if this word is appropriate in this context, ie if the meaning is clear? 02br
00Two minor groups of Adriatic mollusks (Mollusca) belong to the malacologial collection of Rijeka Natural History Museum.. These are chitons (Polyplacophora) and scaphopods (Scaphopoda), 01u01span00present in02span02u00 five species. 0-
  

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02br 00If you mean 'present in the collection', no. Try this:02br 02br 01i 00Two minor groups of Adriatic mollusks (Mollusca) belong to the malacologial collection of Rijeka Natural History Museum01b 00: five species of 02b 00 chitons (Polyplacophora) and scaphopods (Scaphopoda)02i 00. 02br 02br 00Also, I don't know for whom you are translating this, but parenthetically adding the Latin name of the whole phylum (Mollusca) into the midst of the text here is not done in professional scientific writing; the word 'mollusks' is expected to be sufficient for any reader.

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  • 02br 00If you mean 'present in the collection', no.
  • Try this:02br 02br 01i 00Two minor groups of Adriatic mollusks (Mollusca) belong to the malacologial collection of Rijeka Natural History Museum01b 00: five species of 02b 00 chitons (Polyplacophora) and scaphopods (Scaphopoda)02i 00.
  • 02br 02br 00Also, I don't know for whom you are translating this, but parenthetically adding the Latin name of the whole phylum (Mollusca) into the midst of the text here is not done in professional scientific writing; the word 'mollusks' is expected to be sufficient for any reader.
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00If you mean 'present in the collection', no. Try this:02br
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01i00Two minor groups of Adriatic mollusks (Mollusca) belong to the malacologial collection of Rijeka Natural History Museum01b00: five species of 02b00 chitons (Polyplacophora) and scaphopods (Scaphopoda)02i00. 02br
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0 Thank you. The text was written by a Croatian scientist and she wrote Latin names in parenthesis. I automatically included them, too. Now that you mentioned it, it does sound funny because English term is quite similar to the Latin, while in Croatian language these two are completely different. 0-
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