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minus-squareGiveMemeslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-27 hours agoI’m pretty sure that when it comes to newly discovered species the person that discovers it gets to name it which is why we have stuff like sonicus and the Beyonce fly and the Obama spider and stuff like that.
minus-squarewatersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 hours agoAnd the Hitler beetle. [edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoAnd the garylarsoni louse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni
I’m pretty sure that when it comes to newly discovered species the person that discovers it gets to name it which is why we have stuff like sonicus and the Beyonce fly and the Obama spider and stuff like that.
And the Hitler beetle.
[edit] Here is the eyeless Hitler beetle.
And the garylarsoni louse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni