"Chaeto" pronunciation?

[LeftCoast]

Eh, screw it. It's good enough for me. :lol:

 

[Ruu]

It's noody-brank?

I don't know anyone who pronounces it like that

Oh well, guess I'm not as smart as I thought I was

My dear mother pronounces it like that, and she was an Oxford University zoology professor.

Dave

 

[romunov]

I say chae (as in "hehe!") - tô...
Same goes for polychaete...

 

[Al]

Sue Doe chrome iss (like miss)

pseudo means false in Latin

That seems to imply that there is a TRUE chromis.

 

[greenbean36191]

I say kee-toe as in polyCHAETe (poly-keet), larvAE (lar-vEE) or algAE (al-gEE).

My bio professor always tells us that there aren't many hard and fast rules for saying scientific names other than to say it like the experts do.

Scientific names don't really follow all of the proper Latin rules, but then again Latin is a dead language, so no one knows for sure how it is really supposed to be pronounced anyway.