Tom Scudder (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} tomscud) wrote,@ 2008-06-24 20:55:00 |
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Curious Taxonomy
Did you know Gary Larson has not one, but three species of insect named after him? I didn't know until I read his wikipedia entry, which cites curioustaxonomy.net. In addition to strigiphilus garylarsoni which anyone who's read The Pre-History of the Far Side knows about, there's also a beetle (Garylarsonus) and a Ecuadorian butterfly (Serratoterga larsoni).
On the list of species named after people I also found Albunea groeningi, a sand crab named for Matt Groening, and the lovely troika of Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi, slime mold beetles named after the U.S. president, vice president, and defense secretary.
Did you know Gary Larson has not one, but three species of insect named after him? I didn't know until I read his wikipedia entry, which cites curioustaxonomy.net. In addition to strigiphilus garylarsoni which anyone who's read The Pre-History of the Far Side knows about, there's also a beetle (Garylarsonus) and a Ecuadorian butterfly (Serratoterga larsoni).
On the list of species named after people I also found Albunea groeningi, a sand crab named for Matt Groening, and the lovely troika of Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi, slime mold beetles named after the U.S. president, vice president, and defense secretary.
