Heroina cocaina (cichlid) Heroina Kullander 1996 is an existing genus meant to be the feminine form of Heros (another cichlid genus). The type species was found near Coca, Ecuador, but Kullander resisted the temptation to create this combination.

Mindarus ebayi (fossil aphid) Richard Harrington, of the UK's Royal Entomological Society, bought a fossilised aphid on the web auction site eBay for 20 pounds, found that it belongs to a previously unknown species, and sent it to fossil aphid expert Ole Heie in Denmark. "I had thought it would be rather nice to call it Mindarus ebayi," said Dr Harrington. "Unfortunately, using flippant names to describe new species is rather frowned upon these days." Heie instead named the species after Harrington: Mindarus harringtoni Heie, 2008.