Common names can get confusing especially down here, everybody calls something by a different name referring to the same species.
a white perch in Louisiana isn't the same as a white perch in the north
what people call a 'pin oak' here isn't a true pin oak, we don't have true pin oaks in La
every brown snake in Louisiana is a 'ground rattler'
Heard several times of people calling moles that dig in the yard 'salamanders'. They would ask how to get rid of salamanders and to me a salamander is an amphibian but they kept calling them that. Well it was just a bastardization of the phrase 'soil mounder'.
(not sure what that last paragraph has to do with the subject or anything but anyway)
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