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I have no idea on why they decided to call the common European frog Rana temporaria, but “temporary frog” sounds really funny. “Eh this species name is just temporary, I swear”.

I’m also kind of surprised I couldn’t find a single species called merdicula (little shit). Seems like the sort of humour some would have.

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teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Pretty sure that temporaria is related to temporal, not temporary. It’d be like frog of the times or frog of the right season or something like that.

I could be wrong though.

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- lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  related to temporal, not temporary
  
  That would explain it. But it still sounds funny
  
  Copromorphidae
  
  I stand corrected. Shit-shaped moths!
  
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  - LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.
    
    Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology.
    
    Zoologists are fun.
    
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- idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’m still a huge fan of fruit flies. Drosophila melanogaster= yellow bellied garbage lover
  
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  - angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Black bellied, but yeah!
    
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