Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

This is an incredibly long thread, but PLEASE don’t overlook the one, the only, the Dung Button

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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!

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That’s just funny! :smile:

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Sweet Home Alabama Crayfish

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I love that :joy:

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Here are a few I found:
Kinkajou
Glass Frog
Bat Star

Of the three, Kinkajou is my fav😉

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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.

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I want one of those.

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Bony-eared assfish ( Acanthonus armatus)

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I am very surprised no one mentioned Awaous banana… who would name a fish of all things that?

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Jerrymander? https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/484268-Galeodes-arabs

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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

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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…

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It is descriptive. image

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I mean, it kind of looks like an overripe banana. Maybe.

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Goldenpalace.com Monkey. I can’t even name the animal without it turning into a link!

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It took clicking the link to realize that was part of the name!

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Me too! Looked it up. Cool!

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Its other name, Madidi Titi, also qualifies as a strange name.

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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.

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