Adajinoperus Serov & Wilson, 1999 and Pseudojanira Barnard, 1925 (Pseudojanirid isopods)

Alchemilla and Lachemilla (both lady's mantles)

Asio otus (long-eared owl) and Otus asio (eastern screech owl) The latter, however, was revised to Megascops asio in 2003.

Bombacaceae (kapok) and Cabombaceae (water plant). The type genera are Bombax and Cabomba, so the anagram was unintentional.

Conilera, Lironeca, Nerocila, Olencira and Rocinela Leach, 1818 (isopods) All anagrams of Caroline, W.E. Leach's wife. (Lironeca was later rejected in favor of Livoneca Leach 1818.) Others later added Renocila Miers, 1880, Creniola Bruce, 1987, Norileca Bruce, 1990. Anilocra and Cirolana Leach 1818, and later Alcirona Hansen, 1890, Lanocira Hansen, 1890, and Orcilana Nierstrasz, 1931 are anagrams of Carolina, Leach's mistress. (Orcilana is a junior synonym of Argathona Stebbing, 1905.)

Cydonia and Docynia (quinces)

Dacelo Leach, 1815 (kingfisher) and Lacedo (pulchella) (kingfisher) Both named after Alcedo Linnaeus 1758 (another kingfisher)

Daption Stephens, 1826 (Pintado petrel)

Dasytes Paykull, 1798 and Sydates Casey, 1895 (both dasytid beetles). Also Adasytes Casey, 1895 and Asydates Casey, 1895.

Denmoza (in Argentina, genus of Cactaceae) anagram of Mendoza.

Filago Linnaeus 1753, followed by Gifola, Ifloga, and Logfia Cassini, 1819, Oglifa Cassini, 1822, and finally Lifago Schweinfurth & Muschler, 1911 (all cudweeds)

Galphimia , in the same family as Malpighia (acerola, a sub-tropical fruit)

Guamatela Donn.-Smith, 1914 (genus of Rosaceae) anagram of Guatemala.

Laxita and Taxila (nemeobiid butterflies)

Legenere (named for Berkeley botanist E. L. Greene)

Leymus Named after Elymus (both grasses)

Lobivia (a cactus from Bolivia) (The genus is no longer in use, having been split between Echinopsis and Rebutia.)

Lomandra (mat-rush), and Romnalda (both Xanthorrhoeaceae).

Mesosemia and Semomesia (nemeobiid butterflies)

Milax Gray, 1855 (mollusk) Named after Limax, another mollusk (Linaeus 1758, Martyn 1784, or Ferussac 1819)

Nessiteras rhombopteryx (Loch Ness monster) Coined by naturalist Sir Peter Scott [in a letter to Nature, 1/15/1979]. Literally, it means "Ness monster with rhomboidal fin". Nicholas Fairbairn noted that it is also an anagram for "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S." Dr. Robert Rines, co-author of the name and obtainer of two possible underwater photographs of Nessie, shot back with his own anagram: "Yes, both pix are Monsters R."

Norysca (Clusiaceae) anagram from the related Hypericum ascyron, great Saint John's wort.

Palaechthon Simpson, Palenochtha Simpson, and Talpohenach Kay and Cartmill, 1977 (all plesiadapiforms, fossil stem-group primates) Palaechthon means "ancient native." George Gaylord Simpson created a meaningless anagram to name its relative Palenochtha. Kay and Cartmill's names for a third relative, besides being another anagram, is Welsh for "fragment of an ancient lineage."

Ptinus, Niptus, and Tipnus (Coleopt: Ptinidae)

Pycreus and Cyperus, both members of Cyperaceae.

Rabilimis mirabilis (Brady, 1868) (ostracod)

Reevesia and Veeresia (flowering plants, Sterculiaceae)

Rhamphosternarchus Günther, 1870 and Sternarchorhamphus Eignemann & Ward, 1905 (both apteronotid fish)

Solubea Bergroth, 1891 (bug) For Oebalus Stal 1862, which was a junior homonym.

Tuctoria named after Orcuttia (both grasses)

Ubochea Baill. (1891) named after Bouchea Cham. (1790) (both Verbenaceae)

Zacateza named after Tacazzea (both Apocynaceae)

Ethegotherium Simpson and Hegetotherium (South American fossil mammals, hegetotheriid notoungulates)

Eutatus and Utaetus Ameghino (S. American fossil armadillos),

Macrauchenia and Cramauchenia Ameghino (S. American ungulates),

Toxodon and Xotodon Ameghino. (S. American fossil perissodactyls) Florentino Ameghino was an Argentinian paleontologist; the genus Florentinoameghinia (a lower Eocene mammal) was named after him, as is an Argentine paleontology journal, Ameghiniana.

megachiropteran / cinematographer (15 letters) and Marsipobranchiata / basiparachromatin (17 letters) - Longest well-mixed anagrams. Megachiropteran = fruit bat; Marsipobranchiata = lampreys and hagfish; basiparachromatin = part of cell nucleus.