Abstract: It’s natural that people usually do not know exactly the names of animals and plants in the world because of the biological diversity. We have got great difficulty in our translation of the names of animals and plants because sometimes the same animal or plant has different names and sometimes the same name refers to different animals or plants. To utilize Latin in the translation of botanical and zoological names is a way suggested to avoid mistranslation.

Key words: botanical and zoological names, translation, mistranslation