Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

BBC Earth creates documentaries (I referred to them as specials) with amazing videos. I have one of the 4-disc ones narrated by Sigourney Weaver and a shorter 1-disc narrated by Mike Rowe.

Link to their page → https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/planet-earth

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I actually do not keep tack of those so I do not know whether it made an appearance there. Came to know it through a post by Nick Volpe

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Also the Dubious Dtella. This one looks sort of wide-eyed and innocent.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117398854

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Xlavitia is the Spanish common name for a fish. Xlavitias occur in coastal USA from New York to Texas, adjacent parts of eastern Mexico, and the Yucatán Peninsula. Very few words in any language begin with “xl”. I suspect Maya as the source language, as the fish has been observed northwest of Chicxulub; in the part of Mexico just south of Texas, the only place name of Nahuatl origin I noticed is El Guajolote, Tamaulipas.

Who’s Molly Miller? A blenny.

There’s a snail called shagreen. Where’s the shark?

Myelaphus is a robber fly, not a mouse deer.

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Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax is rather fun to pronounce.

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