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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hyalinobatrachium dianae

Which is bunk. There's, like, a spider species named sonicus hedgehogidae or some shit like that, for the lulz, but heaven forbid we name this guy after his lookalike.

Yeah yeah, rules and conventions, blah blah blah. Some rules need to be broken.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that when it comes to newly discovered species the person that discovers it gets to name it which is why we have stuff like sonicus and the Beyonce fly and the Obama spider and stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And the Hitler beetle.
[edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And the garylarsoni louse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well that was probably a mask off moment holy shit lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hotwheels Sisyphus

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At the very least we have Bulbasaurus phylloxyron

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So is that thing going to start suing palaeontologists that discover similar species?

[–] WILSOOON 1 points 1 month ago

There is also minos phrime, a bacteriophage named after, well , minos prime, the former hardest boss in ultrakill