Talk:Locomotory organ

Question[edit]

"is an organ (anatomy) for animal locomotion. examples: , fin (anatomy), tail (anatomy), Acetabulum (morphology), Mantle (mollusc), Sucker (zoology). Sometimes confused with / See also wing (anatomy), flagellum, leg, Siphon (mollusc) "

Is there a way to get these links from this term.. stub article? it's really like a glossary def or search index, but I know wikipedia officially 'discourages' that.

It doesn't fit as a section in animal locomotion (I tried that, and someone deleted it), there's also organ (anatomy) but again, its hard to make it flow in that article.

MfortyoneA (talk) 11:40, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MfortyoneA, thank you for your interest in improving Wikipedia! Two thoughts come to mind:

Upon reviewing organ (anatomy), it doesn't appear that legs, wings, etc. are organs.
There already is an article, animal locomotion, one can link to.

I would propose to make this article a redirect there (although I feel that it really should be deleted, because of the apparent misnomer).

Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 11:54, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ok thanks. Maybe it is indeed strictly a misnomer as you say. The phrase locomotory organ is in my head in that context, and I have found it all over the place.. so it's not just me. Does a redirect not have value in providing correction; if such a mistake is common.. information in wikipedia should be able to help people correct that. MfortyoneA (talk) 11:57, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

hmm: I'm not so sure it's clear cut. there's internal organs and external organs. Acetabulum (morphology) is an explicit example of something that seems to be described as a locomotory organ ("Acetabulum /æsᵻˈtæbjᵿləm/ (plural acetabula) in invertebrate zoology is a saucer-shaped organ of attachment "). If that is an organ, I think a leg might be aswell? MfortyoneA (talk) 12:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok you are right. [[1]] a leg is a limb or an apendage, not an organ.

The fact that confusion exists suggests to me it would be helpful to have either Wikipedia or Wiktionary stating exactly what a locomotory organ IS, (and ISn't).. MfortyoneA (talk) 12:03, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, here's vindication of the term of art, "locomotory organ": Beckett, B. S. (1986). Biology: A Modern Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 307. ISBN 9780199142606.. I believe that you can draw on this and other references from a Google book search of "locomotory organs of animals" to make an entry in Wiktionary. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 13:09, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect[edit]

I've redirected this to Animal locomotion, where I made a cited statement in the lead that defines "locomotory organ". User:HopsonRoad 15:16, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]