Animal names in different languages

It´s really fortunate that Carl von Linné invented the binominal nomenclature for living organisms, it really makes it more easy to know what animal or plant one is talking about. But still one can see a lot of confusion in translating different names. One funny example is from a wild West movie which had Swedish subtexts. In one scen there was a man and a woman standing close to a little pond in the desert. Suddenly one could hear a splash from the water. “Vad var det (What was that)?” exlaimed the woman, “Det var en havskatt (That was a ...)”  the man answered. In Swedish “havskatt” is the Seawolf or Wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), a maritime species that you certainly don´t find in small ponds in the desert. What was really said in the movie was “catfish” a fish from the big groups of fishes called siluriformes (catfishes), mostly freshwater species distributed all over the world.

Another example of misunderstanding is that the British name for the Moose (Alces alces) is Elk, but Elk in American english mostly means the Wapiti deer (Cervus canadensis).

In Swedish and Latin these are:

In Danish, they are actually called bison!