{"id":1207,"date":"2020-07-22T16:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceansofbiodiversity.blogs.auckland.ac.nz\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:51:29","slug":"curious-species-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/2020\/07\/22\/curious-species-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious species names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we may need some examples of curious things about the use of species names. Here are some resources:<br \/>\nSpecies names that are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/word\/tautonym.html\"> puns, tautonyms,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/word\/rhyme.html\">rhymes<\/a>, seriously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/word\/longShort.html\">long, <\/a>and other useful and amusing information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/index.html\">Curious Taxonomy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/these-scientific-names-were-chosen-purely-to-insult-cer-1691360201\">Naming species as an insult to people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-header__title t_article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/scientists-should-stop-naming-species-after-awful-people\/\">Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\" font--headline gray-darkest pb-sm null \" data-qa=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/12\/19\/blind-worm-like-amphibian-that-buries-its-head-underground-has-been-named-after-donald-trump\/\">A blind, wormlike amphibian that burrows underground has been named after Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biopat.de\/en\/start.html\">Donate to taxonomy and get naming rights to a species<\/a><br \/>\nCollecting and buying sea shells remains popular e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conchology.be\/?t=1\">Conchology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we may need some examples of curious things about the use of species names. Here are some resources: Species names that are puns, tautonyms, rhymes, seriously long, and other useful and amusing information at Curious Taxonomy Naming species as an insult to people. Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People A blind, wormlike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-other-interesting-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.nord.no\/oceansofbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}