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Etymology: Named after Places
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Amblyoproctus boondocksius Ratcliffe (scarab)
from the boondocks.
Ambondro mahabo Flynn & Wyss (Jurassic
mammal) named for the Madagascan village of Ambondromahabo.
Apolysis humbugi Evenhuis, 1985 (bombyliid
fly) From Humbug Creek, CA.
Oligodranes humbug Evenhuis, 1985 (bombyliid fly)
Another from Humbug Creek.
Asiamericana asiatica Nessov, 1995 (fossil
saurodontid fish)
Caulkicephalus 2005 (pterosaur) Found on the
Isle of Wright, where the inhabitants are informally known as
caulkhead.
Dysnocryptus balthasar, D. gaspar, and
D. melchior Holloway, 1982 (weevils) from
Three Kings' Islands, New Zealand.
Gwyneddichtis gwyneddensis Bock, 1959 (fossil fish),
and
Gwyneddichnium gwyneddensis Bock (fossil reptile
footprints) both from the Gwynedd Formation at the Gwynedd Tunnel in
Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania.
Haasiophis terrasanctus Tchernov, Rieppel, Zaher,
Polcyn & Jacobs, 2000 (Lower Cretaceous marine snake) Named
after "holy land", as it was discovered in 'Ein Yabrud, Judean Hills,
Israel. It has tiny, well-developed, hind limbs, but there is no
indication it could talk.
Hylaeus emir Dathe, 2000 (bee) Named for the
United Arab Emirates, where it was discovered; its magnificient coloring
also suggests the country's emirs.
Myzocallis kahawaluokalani Kirkaldy (aphid) The Hawaiian
name supposedly means, "you fish on your side of the lagoon and I'll fish
on the other, and no one will fish in the middle."
Panama canalia Marsh, 1993 (braconid)
Rattus nativitatis (Christmas
Island bulldog rat) (recently extinct)
Alabama Grote, 1895 (lep)
Argentina Linnaeus, 1758 (fish) Probably NOT named after
the country, but for the Latin for "silver" (which the country is also
named for).
Arizona (snake)
Asia Pergens, 1887 (coelentrate; nomen nudum)
Australia Girault, 1928 (parasitic wasp)
Babylonia Schlüter, 1838 (mollusk)
Bulgaria (fungus)
Burma Kirkaldy, 1904 (bug)
China Burr, 1899 (orthopteran)
Colombia Rang, 1835 (mollusk)
Cuba Dyar, 1919 (lep)
Florida Baird, 1858 (bird)
Martialis heureka Rabeling, Brown and Verhaagh,
2008 (ant) "The genus name refers to the unknown combination of
aberrant morphological characters, which led Stefan P. Cover and
Edward O. Wilson to the conclusion that this ant has to be from the
planet Mars." (Five years earlier, two of these ants were discovered
and subsequently lost; the rediscovery prompted the epithet
heureka, Greek for "I found it!") [PNAS 0806187105]
Mexico Spilman, 1972 (jumping shore beetle)
Noumea Risbec, 1928 (nudibranch)
Samoa Sörensen, 1886 (arachnid)
Sonora Baird and Girard 1853 (snake)
Texas Kirkaldy, 1904 (bug)
Uruguay (fossil bee cells) from the Late
Cretaceous/Early Tertiary, in Uruguay.
Virginia Baird and Girard 1853 (snake)
Technosaurus Chatterjee, 1984 (prosauropod dinosaur)
"Texas Technological University (Texas Tech) Lizard"
Myzostoma seymourcollegiorum Rouse and Grygier,
2005 (annelid) Seymour College is a girl's school in a suburb of
Adelaide, South Australia.
Xerocomus silwoodensis Taylor et al., 2007
(mushroom) Discovered on the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College
London.
Ainu Lewis, 1894 (beetle) There are also several species
named after these indigenous northern Japanese.
Aphyocharax yekwanae Willink, Chernoff &
Machado-Allison, 2003 (tetra) In honor of the Ye'Kwana Indians of
the Caura River Basin, Venezuela, where the fish is found.
Azteca (ant)
Berberosaurus Allain et al., 2007 (theropod
dinosaur) referring to the Berbers of Morocco. The fossil is from the
Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Callithrix saterei de Sousa & de Noronha,
1998 Named for the Satere-Maues indians in Amazonian Brazil.
[Goeldiana Zoologia 21: 1]
Galeodes arabs C.L. Koch, 1842 (solfugid, or sun spider)
from the Middle East. (Reaching 10 miles/hour, these may be the fastest
terrestrial invertebrates.)
Hopiichnus Welles, 1971 (trackway of a lower
Jurassic ornithomimid dinosaur) from Arizona; named for the
Hopi.
Incadelphys (South American fossil
marsupial). There are also
Larosterna inca (Inca tern) and
Scardafella inca (Inca dove). The last
is also misnamed; it is found in the southern U. S. and in Central
America, but not in South America.
Lexovisaurus Hoffestetter, 1957 (French
stegosaur) named for the ancient Gallic Lexovix tribe.
Micronycteris matses Simmons, Voss, &
Fleck, 2002 (Matses' big-eared bat) for the Matses indians of
Amazonian Brazil.
Navahoceros (Pleistocene mountain
deer)
Navahopus Baird, 1980 (Jurassic footprints)
from the Navajo Sandstone
Nipponia nippon (Japanese crested
ibis)
Piratosaurus Leidy, 1865 (Late Cretaceous
North American Mosasaur)
Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis Horner, 1992
(duck-billed dinosaur) found on a Blackfeet Indian Reservation,
Montana.
Suncus etruscus (Etruscan shrew) Its type
locality is in Pisa, Italy, in the heartland of the ancient Etruscan
civilization.
Yanomamua Grant, Maas, and Struwe, 2006
(herb, Gentianaceae) Named for the Yanomamö, indigenous to the
area of Venezuela where the plant is found. [Harvard Papers in
Botany 11: 29]
Yicaris dianensis Zhang, Siveter, Waloszek &
Maas 2007 (Late Cambrian crustacean) The Yi are an ethnic
minority group of Yunnan Province, China. "Dian" refers to an ancient
kingdom of southern China.
Zuniceratops Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998
(ceratopsian dinosaur) Named for the Zuni Native American
tribe.
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