I used to often go through lists, google searches, and so on looking for funny/weird animal names. I have made quite a few lists already, and I thought I would make a post here to see if some of you know some good ones. plants and fungi also welcome :) Here are some of my favorites that I can fin…

Eenymeenymyzostoma For comparison…

More than 170 posts, and not one mention of Lalapa lusa . Unfortunately no iNat sightings yet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=1119072 It is on BugGuide, though: https://bugguide.net/node/view/893586

I just discovered that the newest species of Fringe-toed Lizard (longstanding genus Uma) is named Uma thurmanae .

Cool. That’s apparently a very recent species description (2020) since a search on the web provides almost nothing except websites talking about the actress!

It is indeed from 2020, but early enough 2020 that The Reptile Database first picked it up and then later iNaturalist was updated with the output from The Reptile Database.

Well for the most part is isn’t English (arguably only one word in that name is English), but it is an English name.

Understood – I just found it funny. I guess “Sportive” and “Lemur” are both English.

Lemur is actually Latin for ghost.

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raymie September 28, 2020, 8:45pm 186

My favorite is what is possibly the longest English common name, the Association Européenne pour l’Etude et la Conservation des Lémuriens’ Sportive Lemur.

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