as my first real contribution to this forum i present: the ultimate taxonomic vanity license plate
i blurred the image for arachnophobia but you can see it here
anyway this is the only post of this type i will make. i’m allowed one
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what was your process when finding these animals with funny names? was it just a random occurrence or… anyways, thanks for sharing, made me smile
(how did they even see a resemblance with the looping)
there’s no process the only way to find stuff like this is to surround yourself with nerds who like this sort of thing and think about random stuff constantly
one of those nerdy friends of mine also sent me a moth called hebrew character
One I know about is the Sonic Hedgehog protein: Sonic hedgehog protein - Wikipedia
It just came up in the news a while back because of its name and it’s since been forever stuck in my head rent-free.
yea very cool! there’s also pikachurin - i have in the past done a puzzle which was ostensibly about pokemon but that actually required identifying strings within specific strains of pikachurin
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There is actually a lot of things named after pokemon, probably in part because its so popular. My personal favorite is a pair of researchers who found these 3 beatles and named them after the 3 legendary birds because of their rarity
Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres, and Binburrum zapdos
My partner’s special interest is pokemon and they went on a deep dive not to long ago on a bunch of different things named after pokemon
You mean: Binburrum articuno, Binburrum zapdos, and Binburrum moltres 
what?
uno dos treshuh?
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