Indomitable Melipotis
I just enjoy saying that in an arrogant voice for some reason. * @mamestraconfigurata I know the common name has been adjusted but I prefer the one in Peterson. Don’t hate. ;)
Bird-dropping moths and other bird-dropping mimics. Unfortunate but totally reasonable and accurate common names.
I always thought cock-of-the-rock sounded funny
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron ssp. hypophyllocarpodendron (Green Snakestem Pincushion) for longest name (or nearly so) - see this observation for a fun discussion.
Some funny common names:
Chicken turtle (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/39762-Deirochelys-reticularia) and mountain chicken (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/22982-Leptodactylus-fallax), both were named so because their meat supposedly tastes like chicken.
Pink fairy armadillo (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47097-Chlamyphorus-truncatus)
Fried egg jellyfish (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324852-Cotylorhiza-tuberculata) because… it looks like a swimming fried egg
Slippery dick (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49272-Halichoeres-bivittatus)
Acanthonus armatus, known as “bony-eared assfish” on wiki (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/459198-Acanthonus-armatus)
For some weird/interesting/funny scientific names, see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kholhring_Lalchhandama/publication/271217976_Taxonomic_revolution_or_is_it_that_zoologists_just_want_to_have_fun/links/54c32da50cf219bbe4ea937e/Taxonomic-revolution-or-is-it-that-zoologists-just-want-to-have-fun.pdf 
Smeagols which live in dark wet places - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/397236-Smeagol-climoi
Devil’s Coachhorse - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/409801-Creophilus-oculatus
Halfnaked Hatchetfish - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/94608-Argyropelecus-hemigymnus
Real Bastard Trumpeter - https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/411069-Mendosoma-lineatum
Ha ha ha
Yep, here are a couple of my favorites from there:
a Braconid wasp: Verae peculya
an Amoeba: Chaos chaos
an Amphipod: Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis that’s 50 letters!
I’m fond of the slug Boettgerilla. If I had a gorilla, I’d call it Bert.
One that always gets a giggle on snorkel tours is a Slippery Dick. It’s also one of the most common fish we see too.
Here in Israel the cooler rainy season brings with it Great Tits
Those are one of the most common birds in where I am ;)
excuse me @Star3 i have looked but could not find any obs of that beetle on inaturalist
Thank you
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There’s lot of species without observations on iNaturalist.
I was just contributing a “funny” and weird name. :)
Apparently it was documented in a list of beetles of Alaska and Canada, if that helps.
https://www.gbif.org/species/100169258/verbatim
