# Names, animals and meanings (G2) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Aug 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### mary whalen *04 Aug 1998, 08:31* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Grison. French for grey. Any species of genus Grison, especially Grison vittatus. Apparently this genus and its species have recently been renamed, and the genus is now Galictis. The name vittatus has become vittata. It is related to the zoril. It looks like a cross between a weasel and an otter with a black upper front, a white area wrapped around its head and neck, and the rest greyish. It is agile, climbs and swims well, makes dens out of burrows, and is often domesticated but is harmful to domestic fowl even then. Blood's driver who is chauffeuring him when he meets Silk for the first time. I'm just about done with all the characters, but since there is no character list in the first book and I don't have time to reread it, could someone with a complete list post the names I haven't found yet? Did mantis say that he had made such a list? Thanks. prion ---