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Thanks for the reply.

Any species named Genus cumingii was named for Hugh Cuming, a Brit and contemporary of Charles Darwin. Hugh Cuming was a sailmaker in I forget which South American country on the Pacific coast. I think it was Chile. He traveled the world exploring for mollusks and was first to record many, including Hyriopsis cumingii and Pinctada margaritifera cumingii. Presumably, Hyriopsis schlegelii was first recorded by a man named Schlegel.

So, I'm wondering, why add a double i at the end? Do two i characters next to each other mean something in Latin?

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