Botanic nomenclature

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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    • 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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• shane@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I prefer Boops boops. Pronounced Boh-ops.

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    • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like Upupa epops

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They did it for the Luzulz

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• kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A bunch of species of tarantula in the Thrixopelma genus recently got moved to their own genus Ewok. This genus includes the newly discovered Ewok aycarumba.

  wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/18853

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• the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also “sub-”, at least in mycological names.

  The other day, I read that there’s a mushroom called “Agaricus subsubensis” and I felt like I was being trolled.

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• rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mamalian nomenclature:

  Lynx McLynxface

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  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fox McFoxface

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• hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Aside from Amorphophallus holding a big wang in your face there will always be Rollulus rouloul for the lulz.

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  • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While we’re at it, let’s make an honorable mention of the naughtiest of all Amorphophallus species, A. fornicatus.

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