As some of you that look at my facebook page would know, Steve Irwin is memorialized by a new genus of snail: Crikey steveirwini
Press release here and Zootaxa abstract. Unfortunately, the full PDF is "subscription only".
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Crikey, a new snail...
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Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Blimey! (or should that be Crikey!!!!!!) 
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Re: Crikey, a new snail...
i could'nt help noticing in the link that David Bowie has had a spider named after him,i was quite a fan in the eighties but i cant ever see me becoming a fan of large spider's 
it's a fitting gesture for Steve Irwin to have a new species named aftrer him.
it's a fitting gesture for Steve Irwin to have a new species named aftrer him.
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Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Cartoonist Gary Larson ("The Far Side") has some sort of tiny insect named after him.
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Re: Crikey, a new snail...
It's rather funny that they use Crikey for the genus, haha.
Also, the spider genus Aptostichus has A. stephencolberti and A. angelinajoleae, to name two of them; I'm not sure if the other species in the genus are also named after people or things. In fact, their descriptions are also in Zootaxa.
And who could forget ?
He's got a louse. Not sure if I would want a louse with my name on it, hehe.MatsP wrote:Cartoonist Gary Larson ("The Far Side") has some sort of tiny insect named after him.
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Also, the spider genus Aptostichus has A. stephencolberti and A. angelinajoleae, to name two of them; I'm not sure if the other species in the genus are also named after people or things. In fact, their descriptions are also in Zootaxa.
And who could forget ?
- Milton Tan
Research Scientist @ Illinois Natural History Survey
Research Scientist @ Illinois Natural History Survey