Interesting names

Interesting names

We welcome any suggestions for additions to a list of odd names of organisms.

  • Aa Baker, 1940 - the mollusc
  • Aa Reichenbach, 1854 - the orchid
  • As Slipinski, 1982 - the beetle
  • Ba Solem, 1983 - the snail, as in Ba humbugi
  • Ca Dyar, 1914 - the moth
  • Ea Distant, 1911 - the bug
  • Ge Nicéville, 1895 - the butterfly
  • Ia Thomas, 1902 - a bat
  • Io Blanchard 1852
  • Io Lea, 1831 - a mollusc
  • Io Blanchard, 1852 - said to be a moth, but ...
  • Ix Bergroth, 1916 - a bug
  • Ja Uéno, 1955 - a beetle
  • Jo Gregorio - a name to replace Lea's Io
  • La Bleszynski, 1966 - a moth
  • Lo Seale, 1906 - a fish
  • Oa Girault, 1929 - was for a wasp
  • Qu Durkoop, Mensink & Plodowski, 1967 - a trilobite
  • Ra Whitley, 1931 - another fish
  • Ty Bory de St. Vincent, 1827 - purportedly a 'prot' according to Airey Neave
  • Ua Girault, 1929 - a wasp
  • Zu Walters & Fitch, 1960 - another fish

Jim Croft reminds us of ...

  • Pieza rhea
  • Pieza deresistans
  • Phthiria relativitae
  • Carmenelectra shechisme

    • There there are:

    The flies

  • Serendipidae Evenhuis, 1994

    • The flagellates

  • Cafeteria
  • Carpediemonas
  • Ergobibamus
  • Massisteria
  • With the flagellates Carpediemonas and Ergobibamus, should go the fossil
  • Gaudeamus

    Knowing one of the authors was Australian, will help disentangle the word play with the whale-eating

  • Osedax