Nature & Environment
Studying mammals: Return to the water
...write them by hand, you should underline the name). My dictionary gives, at the end of the definition of the word 'lepton', the Greek word leptos meaning 'slender' or 'fine' and at the end of the definition of 'onyx', it gives onyx as a Greek word meaning 'nail' or 'claw'. So the name of the genus, Leptonychotes refers to the narrow claws on the flippers of the seal...