I always thought cock-of-the-rock sounded funny
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Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron ssp. hypophyllocarpodendron (Green Snakestem Pincushion) for longest name (or nearly so) - see this observation for a fun discussion.
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Found another one today. Headless Chicken Monsters!
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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)
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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 
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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
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Ha ha ha
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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!
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I’m fond of the slug Boettgerilla. If I had a gorilla, I’d call it Bert.
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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.
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Here in Israel the cooler rainy season brings with it Great Tits
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Those are one of the most common birds in where I am ;)
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Welcome to the forum, @zelun0903 :)
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There are also the Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle and Kuwana’s Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle.
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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
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