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Scientific Names

Scientific Names. Scientific Names. This poison frog's scientific name Dendrobates azureus, means blue tree-walker!. Scientific Names. The king vulture Sarcorhamphus papa Has a scientific name that means "father or leader with a fleshy, curved beak.". Scientific Names. Panthera leo

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Scientific Names

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  1. Scientific Names

  2. Scientific Names • This poison frog's scientific name • Dendrobates azureus, means blue tree-walker!

  3. Scientific Names • The king vulture • Sarcorhamphus papa • Has a scientific name that means "father or leader with a fleshy, curved beak."

  4. Scientific Names • Panthera leo • Leo means lion

  5. Scientific Names • Bolen’s Pythons • Liasis boeleni • Liasis taronga • Python boeleni • Morelia boeleni

  6. Scientific Names • Red-banded Leafhopper • Graphocephala coccinea

  7. Scientific Names • Red Velvet Ants • Dasymutilla occidentalis

  8. Scientific Names • Albino Driftwood Catfish • Auchenipterus nuchalis

  9. Scientific Names • Salmonella enteritidis • Identified by Daniel Salmon

  10. Scientific Names • Fungi: Boletus edulis

  11. Scientific Names • Nessiteras rhombopteryx • (Loch Ness monster) This proposed name is not a valid scientific name because there is no type specimen to go with it.

  12. Scientific Names • Funny Names • Ba humbugi (snail in Fiji) • Pieza pi (mythicomyiid fly) • Pieza kake (mythicomyiid fly) • Pieza rhea (mythicomyiid fly) • Verae peculya (braconid)

  13. Scientific Names • Insulting Names • Anisonchus cophater: Cope (Miocene mammal) Edward Cope wrote in a letter to Henry F. Osborn: "Osborn, it's no use looking up the Greek derivation of cophater, ... for I have named it in honor of the number of Cope-haters who surround me...." From: http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxPuns.html

  14. Some names are interesting for what they are named after (for example, Arthurdactylus conandoylensis, Godzillius), some are puns (La cucaracha, Phthiria relativitae), and some show other kinds of wordplay (such as the palindromic Orizabus subaziro). Some have achieved notability through accident of history, and many show the sense of humor of taxonomists.

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