| From: | Simon Richard Clarkstone <s.r.clarkstone@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 30, 2004, 15:45 |
B. Garcia wrote:> Oh and here's a small list of amusing taxonomic names from: > > http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html... Then, of course there are the owl louse named after Gary Larson (Strigiphilus garylarsoni): <http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jun2001/991766455.Zo.r.html> and the (extinct) chenolian named after Terry Pratchett (Psephophorus terrypratchetti): (2/3rds of the way down) <http://www.sffworld.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2874.html> (I found a link to a site on this kind of stuff on the second page linked to: <http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html>) -- Simon Richard Clarkstone s.r.cl*rkst*n*@durham.ac.uk / s*m*n_cl*rkst*n*@hotmail.com