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…

I find it useful to search for (historically) edible plants by searching for “edulis” is the taxon search , these two aren’t plants and seem particularly singled-out: Trichonephila edulis - a spider Pyxicephalus edulis - a bull frog Note: I think “edulis” should be treated with caution. In practic…

Concholepas concholepas is a weird muricid marine snail locally called loco in Chile, which means crazy/mad/nuts hahaha this name probably has precolombin roots and used to mean another thing

Trying to pick up some Spanish for upcoming travel. Recently I learned about Enema pan. Which I guess translates to Bread Enema. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=301500

Depressed hedgehog (a mushroom)

Everything in the Genus Sula. . . I can think of some weird plants, too. . .

Like the genus name for chimpanzees, pan here is unrelated to the Spanish word for bread; instead, it’s almost certainly referring to the Greek god Pan (classical mythological references were commonly used in scientific names way back when). Regarding the name Enema: Fabricius named a species Scara…

Yeah, I don’t think for a second it was what I alluded to, its just more fun to think of the worse interpretation. But I also assumed pan was more from the Greek word “Pan” meaning all/universal, used for more widespread species. And Enema being late latin for Injection. I figured it possibly refe…

Sad Flycatcher. Gray/White/Bare-faced Go Away Bird. Monotonous Lark. Satanic Nightjar. Exclamatory Paradise-Whydah.

Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

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scharf August 15, 2023, 1:09am 532

#cottagecore, I guess!

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