The best part is that not only is the Bremia species from Germany, the same paper had the opposite record of the shortest species name, in the form of Bremia o. (Yes, that’s the entire name)
Using non-Latin words (with Latin grammar) for genus names, or as nouns in apposition as epithets (as in the recent tilcayo), or as the root for a noun in the genetic case, is not new, but I can’t think offhand of a precedent for using languages other than Greek and Latin for adjectival epithets.
I don’t know how to interpret strip/stripe in this context, but presumably they could have used brunneostriata, rubrostriatus and estriata or similar. clockstripa makes me wonder whether they meant something more like marking that stripe - in which case -notata rather than -striata, and annulata.
Madagascar has been misused a lot, and maybe just because people were probably not enough creative to pick other names or they just liked the word mad for some reason???
Rhinomada, Madagenus, Macumada, Monomada, Amplimada, Bambomada and what not.
BTW can you guess what Madaceratops is? You must be thinking, "it must be a big old ceratopsian dino from Madagascar but then you find out:
Kol ghuva (a Cretaceous dinosaur) is from Mongolian, and the species epithet is an adjective. I could decline the genus name Kol, Kolis, Kolem (the last assumes it’s not neuter), but I don’t know what to do with the epithet.
