Topic: SCIENCE - on May 29, 2016 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
List of organisms named after famous people
In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar, species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in -i or -ii if named for an individual, and -orum if named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in -ae, or -arum for two or more women.
Anomphalus jaggerius Snail Mick Jagger Bumba lennoni Spider John Lennon Funkotriplogynium iagobadius Mite James Brown Montypythonoides riversleighensis Extinct reptile Monty Python Psephophorus terrypratchetti Turtle Terry Pratchett Tetramorium adamsi Ant Douglas Adams
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