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Crikey, a new snail...
Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 10:22
by MatsP
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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Mats
Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 12:35
by Richard B
Blimey! (or should that be Crikey!!!!!!)
Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 13:46
by arcsb
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.
Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 13:51
by MatsP
Cartoonist Gary Larson ("The Far Side") has some sort of tiny insect named after him.
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Mats
Re: Crikey, a new snail...
Posted: 23 Sep 2009, 22:23
by Suckermouth
It's rather funny that they use Crikey for the genus, haha.
MatsP wrote:Cartoonist Gary Larson ("The Far Side") has some sort of tiny insect named after him.
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Mats
He's got a louse. Not sure if I would want a louse with my name on it, hehe.
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
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