08-18-2018, 06:48 PM
For the ponies, having checked in the 'Latin Motto Help' thread on the NS forums (where I'd already received help with taxonomical Latin in the past), I suggest the species name Equus parvulus. The specific designator there, "parvulus", is a diminutive of parvus which means "small": We could use parvus itself for this species, if you want, but I'd rather save that label for the subspecies of larger pony from which this species was derived.
Also, I think that the populations on the two [main] islands might have diverged into separate sub-species from each other by now. If so, then I suggest that they might also have developed a difference in [usual] colour as an adaption to differences in the local vegetation: How does having one population greyish-brown (E.p. griseus) and the other reddish-brown (E.p. rufus) sound to you?
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Re the migratory butterfly: This should probably be a fairly large and well-known species. Do you have an identity for the white[ish]] one shown on your flag? If you don't object, I think that maybe that might be it? One species of butterfly that occurs in the RL UK is called the 'Purple Emperor' in English: How about calling this species of yours, because of its pale colour and the fact that its migration would parallel the RL Monarch Butterfly's, the 'Ghost Emperor' butterfly?
Also, I think that the populations on the two [main] islands might have diverged into separate sub-species from each other by now. If so, then I suggest that they might also have developed a difference in [usual] colour as an adaption to differences in the local vegetation: How does having one population greyish-brown (E.p. griseus) and the other reddish-brown (E.p. rufus) sound to you?
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Re the migratory butterfly: This should probably be a fairly large and well-known species. Do you have an identity for the white[ish]] one shown on your flag? If you don't object, I think that maybe that might be it? One species of butterfly that occurs in the RL UK is called the 'Purple Emperor' in English: How about calling this species of yours, because of its pale colour and the fact that its migration would parallel the RL Monarch Butterfly's, the 'Ghost Emperor' butterfly?