Between the Global and Local in Scientific Naming
Year: 2026

Since Linnaeus, zoologists have used the rules of scientific nomenclature to coin precise and unequivocal names for animal species. The Soviet Ukrainian zoologist and leech specialist, Efim Lukin, however, provided the species he studied not only with these scientific names, but with vernacular Ukrainian ones as well. This chapter offers an account of the strategies employed by Lukin to coin these common names for leech species in the Ukrainian language, reconstructing the motivation behind each