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From Aa to Zyzzyxdonta –
Taxonomy can be fun!!
Brian Goodwin
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From Aa to Zyzzyxdonta
• The shortest allowable scientific name is one of 2 letters.
• Alphabetically, therefore, Aa – which is either a snail or an orchid – comes first.
• Immediately following it is Aaadonta, while one of the last names alphabetically is Zyzzyxdonta, another endodontoid snail.
• Zyzzyxdonta has characters the extreme opposite of Aaadonta!
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An early interest
in animals
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• First pair of binoculars
• Discover birds!
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The scientific name for genera in the Thrush family is
Turdus!!!
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Abra cadabra
became
Theora cadabra
which became
Theora
mesopotamica
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cadabra Agra
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Agra vate
Agra vation
Agra phobia
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•Celebrities
•Puns
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Charles
Darwin
David Attenborough
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Agra beegees
Agra
katewinsletae
Agra
schwarzeneggeri
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Anomphalus jaggerius
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Jaggermeryx
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Scaptia beyonceae
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A genus of ferns called Gaga
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Manfred Parth, a German conchologist, named two
new species of Bursidae after his two children –
Cristina and Luca
Bufonaria cristinae Bursa lucaensis
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Bursa
borisbeckeri
I dedicate the new
species to Boris
Becker, in my view
the greatest
individual athlete of
all time.
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Paronomasia, is a form of word
play that suggests two or more
meanings, by exploiting multiple
meanings of words, or of similar-
sounding words, for an intended
humorous or rhetorical effect.
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Puns Paronomasia, is a form of word
play that suggests two or more
meanings, by exploiting multiple
meanings of words, or of similar-
sounding words, for an intended
humorous or rhetorical effect.
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Apophyllus now
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Eubetia bigaulae
You betcha, by golly!
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In 2002 Neal Evanhuis described 11 new species of small, brown furry flies. He called the genus Pieza
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Pieza species
• Pieza rhea
• Pieza pi
• Pieza kake
• Pieza deresistans
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Vampyroteuthis infernalis translates as:
“Vampire squid from hell”
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Nilgai or Blue Bull In 1766 Peter Simon Pallas described Antilope tragocamelus.
In 1816 de Blainville added some bovid genera and it became
Boselaphus tragocamelus.
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Boselaphus tragocamelus
translates as:
“Ox-deer -goat-camel”
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Sea slug –
Phyllidia polkadotsa
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The
End