The existence of scientific names in Pokemon raises questions, such as whether only the Pokemon has it or if it applies to the entire evolutionary line, or if it's scientific name changes when it evolves? What about regional variants?
>>58826190Kabutops was also given a scientific name in the anime: Kabutops maximus
>>58826190AFAIK, FR/LG entries were retconned since it mentions indian elephants.
>>58826246They're still referenced later i.e. the switchup to be Copperajah instead, plus this dex entry was in XY. I'm sure scientific names don't contradict anything worth retconning.
>>58826190>What about regional variants?They're more akin to breeds, so they share the same scientific name. Be Norwegian, Siamese, Abyssinian, Scottish Fold, Maine Coon, they're all felis catus
If Pokémon have scientific names, then I wonder how they relate to these:https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_category>>58826285Some other kinds of Forms for some Pokémon could be thought of as that too.
>>58826190>scientific namesIt's completely irrelevant in pokemon. Basically they give different names to the same species instead of accoutning for ontogeny
How can Pikachu be the Mouse Pokemon if they don't know what a mouse is?
>>58827849The same way humans figured out to start calling a bull a bull instead of continuing to use the primal recognition of "four-legged two-horned meat-haver".
>>58827907I can't tell if you're a normal illiterate or an esl.
>>58828098The point I'm making is that humans in the Pokemon world determined that there should be uniform classifications to denote commonalities between different species, and that while those species are wholly distinct, they have common ancestral roots that warrant viewing the correlation. Thus, they figured out Pikachu should be known as a "mouse" because they recognized there are other Pokemon with similar qualities, and they gave that shared commonality a name, deeming them "mouse" Pokemon.It's just that, looking at it solely from an in-universe lens, it's pure coincidence that those terms are also ones we recognize from real life, and one could argue they derived the name "mouse" from Tandemaus and Maushold, given Pokemon's worldbuilding loves to connect the origin of human constructs to being inspired by Pokemon in some shape or form (i.e. people made ice cream cones look the way they do because they were inspired by Vanillite's appearance).
>>58826190This name is a joke and not real Latin based taxonomy./thread
