Inspired by the thread Funny, long, or just plain weird animal names , which contains mostly English names, I thought I’d create this thread for sharing memorably weird names from other languages as well (with translations of course, so every one can enjoy). I’ll start with some of my Danish favouri…

see this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/great-or-funny-species-names-in-other-languages/10910

Weird common names in your native language

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