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D&D 3E/3.5 Scientific names


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Felis Pinnula or Felis Avia

The one for giant spiders is close. Technically, you should probably choose one of the many genus names. But "Arachnid" paired with anything denoting large size- Gigans, Mega, Titan, etc.- would work. You could or even should even use those variants to describe the various distinct ones.

OTOH, you could create a new genus- saaaaay, "Titanarachnea"- to denote the genus of ALL the giant sized spiders of fantasy and then you could have fun with the species names to distinguish them. In this case, the common giant spider would be Titanarachnea vulgaris.

Something like a phase spider would be Titanarachnea aetherius. The biggest species in your campaign setting could be Titanarachnea Rex.
 

Etin-gigantus duoheadus?
Storm giant gigantus stormium?
Reef giant-gigantus aquatus?
Stone giant-gigantus terrum?
Blink dog-canis blinkum?


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Etin- Gigantes Gemellus
Storm giant- Gigantes Tempestas
Reef giant- Gigantes Scopulas
Stone giant- Gigantes Lapidus
Blink dog- Canis Volito
 

Jungle giant-gigantes carnivores?
Blink mammoth-elephantine blinkus?
Armadilaphant-elephantus scallus?


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Jungle giant- Gigantes Arbous... I’m not sure there was a specific word for jungles distinct from forests in general
Blink mammoth- Loxodonta Vito
Armadilaphant- Loxodonta scallus
 

From the same article as the blink mammoth, jello cube-uncelius ediblus?
Sun giant-gigantes solorus?
Tikler-laughius ballius hahaus


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