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Puns: Plays on Familiar Words
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Circus dossenus Olson and James, 1991
(harrier hawk) "Latin, dossenus, a clown or jester, without which one
cannot have a circus." [Descr. of 32 n. spp. of birds from the
Hawaiian Islands: I. Non-Passeriformes (Ornith. Monographs 45):
65]
Electrona (lanternfish)
Meteoria (deep-sea fish)
Ostentator Jaennicke, 1867 (bombyliid fly,
synonym)
Pantydraco (prosauropod dinosaur) from
Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry in Wales.
Problema (skipper)
Tyrannasorus rex Ratcliffe and Ocampo, 2001
(Miocene hybosorid scarab from Dominican amber) The dinosaur is spelled
Tyrannosaurus. [Coleop. Bull. 55:351]
Tyrannoberingius rex Maricovich, 1981
(Miocene snail) It is several times larger than living Beringius
species. [J Paleontol 55(1): 176]
Tyrannomyrmex rex Fernández, 2003
(Malaysian ant) [Zootaxa 341:1]
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