Some kind of connection to Gandalf from Lord of the Rings maybe.
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I think it’s named after him.
Unfortunate names for a plant. Still super funny tho
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Not an animal, but Interrupted clubmoss
Who interrupted it?
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There are several crawfish with interesting common names. Wonderful Crayfish, Complete Crayfish, Powerful Crayfish, Beautiful Crayfish, Celestial Crayfish, Lame Crayfish, Depression Crayfish
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And the best one of all, Crawzilla Crawdad (Lacunicambarus chimera)
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It seems someone had a little too much fun naming these.
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Why, a stalk of Allium rude, of course. 
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Curved-lined angle and Eupithecia are both leps. You’d think Eupithecia would be a primate (as is Pithecia), but it isn’t.
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I think I might have been referred to that way…
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Those are so cute! How’d they ever they ever get a name like flapping dingbat?
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@isopodguy I don’t know, but I love it!
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The specific epithet on that is also memorable: it’s named after Chaac Mool
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Interesting - I wonder if the specific epithet was chosen in reference to the sacrificial use (that some have speculated), because the mollusc looks like a heart…?
Conintuing the mythological terror theme, the extinct Ankylosaur Zuul.
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I recently identified some bird as a member of Anseriformes and saw “Pijijes” come up as one of the common names and think it sounds funny. Wiktionary doesn’t know the word, but searching on iNat I find that “pijije” is a Mexican common name for some Dendrocygna species, called whistling ducks in English. I thought it would be “pijij”, as the singular of “bojes” is “boj” (Buxus), but it’s “pijije”.
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I love this as a name for a crab. I found one in the Seychelles several years ago, but only learned its name through iNaturalist.
My observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51500968
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