Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names

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Here you go i have a list of 480 some species.
https://www.inaturalist.org/lists/940186-wierd-names

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Forgot me. https://www.inaturalist.org/lists/940186-wierd-names

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Unequal cellophane bee

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one of my earlier moth observations on iNat where i think I got schooled. They really put the xest in life ;)

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I feel like this would be another punk-flavored Les Claypool project…follow up to Fearless Flying Frog Brigade perhaps?

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I’ve always liked Aaadonta and Zyzzyxdonta, 2 genera of tropical land snails described in the same publication. They look rather different and the original description states: “It was thought appropriate that their names be as widely separated as their scultpure.”

Ittibittium gives me a chuckle too.

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The markings on the wing do look like the Hebrew letter nun (נ). <-- This font doesn’t do the similarity justice.

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First that came to mind is the ‘Alien Butt Spider’ [Araneus praesignis]. A decent photo is here.

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Before clicking, I was wondering if something with that name would have a butt that looked like ia xenomorph’s head…or a butt that looked like a xenomorph’s tail.
Turns out it’s much cuter.

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Before I clicked on it, I was wondering how people thought they knew what an alien’s butt looked like. Now I see that the spider’s butt resembles and alien face.

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You’re right, it’s very definitely the face of an alien because we’ve all been brought up to know what their faces look like : ) Possibly the ‘butt’ in the name refers to the butt of the spider.

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Aw man, someone already brought up Great Tits. It’s been my fav, since it’s one of the few times you get to see a wiki photo titled ‘a pair of Great Tits’ (at least last I saw).

  • Tufted Titmouse.
  • Astilbe, which a dear relative of mine insists on pronouncing ‘Ass-tube’. I don’t know why. I only learned how to pronounce it correctly just recently.
  • Obi-wan Conobea
  • Dutchman’s Breeches
  • Changeable Mantleslug
  • Handsome Fungus Beetle
  • Batman Moth
  • Ambiguous Moth
  • Lesser Vagabond Sod Webworm Moth
  • Humped Beewolf
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (it’s just fun to say)

a bunch of others I’m forgetting about

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Neat! The first observation I put on iNat was an Old Man of the Woods. I wondered what the weird looking mushroom was so I searched for a way to identify it and discovered iNaturalist.

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I made an observation today of a little flower I thought was beautiful and elegant.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48861776

Turns out that beautiful flower’s not so elegant name is “Turkey Tangle Frogfruit.”

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More terrifying that funny. I recently discovered there’s something called the Bold Jumping Spider.

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I have bold jumping spiders that hang around my veg plots. So handsome!

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Dog Poop Bush Ebenopsis confinis

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Trainwrecker mushroom

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I’ve always been fond of the Imperial Shag.

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Sounds like a bad haircut from the '70s, but it’s actually a rather attractive bird.