Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

Found this in some interesting facts of wildlife web page, too stunned to see a Floating Omelet out of nowhere.
This is a Fried Egg Jellyfish found in and across the Mediterranean Sea (nearer to Europe)

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Brown bush warbler is so dumb cause literally all bush warblers are brown → https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/339725-Locustella-luteoventris

Firewood-gatherer → https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/11850-Anumbius-annumbi

And my personal favourite, the bokikokiko

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116765-Acrocephalus-aequinoctialis

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Whirligig Mites (Genus Anystis) is one that made me chuckle
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/158969917

The White-naped Honeyeater too - all but one of the species in it’s genus, Melithreptus (containing 7 species), have white napes.

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Virgin creeper (100% safe for work – they’re plants in the genus Parthenocissus).

personally, I think it’s a little weird that there’s a genus called ‘necrophilia’ (carrion beetles, so the name makes sense, but yeesh)

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Of all the world’s vultures, the only one in the Genus Vultur is… a condor.

… Which is a large species of vulture?

I’ve mentioned this one in previous threads
The Passenger Pigeon Louse, Columbicola extinctus…
Turns out it’s not extinct… whoops…

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Those aren’t even vultures, just distant relatives of Accipitridae.

I mean, it depends on your definition of “vulture” and preferred taxon scheme. Even “old world vulture” is a paraphyletic concept in some taxonomic schemes.

Batman Moth

The Joker

Darth Maul bug

Exasperating Platynota

Confused Woodgrain Moth