Talk:Coris (fish)

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Unique names?

Updating the pages on the fishes in Wikipedia-NL, I came upon the genus Coris. Looking for interwiki-links, I found a Portugese page with the same name pt:Coris, but describing a genus of plants.

How is this possible? I thought every species had a unique name, being a fish, a bird, a tree, a plant, ...

Arafi78 06:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]