This is an incredibly long thread, but PLEASE don’t overlook the one, the only, the Dung Button
Last spring we found some Beech Blight Aphids. Their other name is Boogie-Woogie Aphids, and if you see some, you’ll know why. There are several good videos on YouTube, some with appropriate music!
That’s just funny!
Sweet Home Alabama Crayfish
I love that
Here are a few I found:
Kinkajou
Glass Frog
Bat Star
Of the three, Kinkajou is my fav😉
Here are some funny ones
Beach chicken. Is also known as a seagull.
Floaty potato. Is also known as a manatee.
Floppy floppy sea spider. also known as an octopus.
Dirty needle. Iis also known as a mosquito.
Magical safety dragon.
Arrow pig.
Winter tree dog.
I want one of those.
Bony-eared assfish ( Acanthonus armatus)
I am very surprised no one mentioned Awaous banana… who would name a fish of all things that?
northwest ugly clam https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71397541
Big Ugly https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17213504
Bloody nosed beetle https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/73944216
The most unusual thing about that is that it is not at all descriptive, at least in the linked image. I didn’t see anything resembling a bloody nose. Now the Rummy-nose tetra, on the other hand…
It is descriptive.
I mean, it kind of looks like an overripe banana. Maybe.
It took clicking the link to realize that was part of the name!
Me too! Looked it up. Cool!
Its other name, Madidi Titi, also qualifies as a strange name.
Similarly, there’s https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/35164-Hydrophis-platurus, the Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake. I think it sounds like an insult you’d hear on board a pirate ship.