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Wordplay: Long and Short Names
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Johannesteijsmannia (palm genus) after 19th
century Dutch botanist Johannes Teijsmann.
Tetrastichus rhipophorathripcidis Narayanan, Subba Rao &
Ramachandra Rao, 1962 (parasitic eulophid wasp)
Deuterosmintheurus quinquefasciatus (collembolan)
Pterodactylus crocodiliocephaloides (pterosaur)
Pseudotyrannochthonius octospinosus
(pseudoscorpion)
Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus d'Orbigny and
Lafresnaye, 1837 (crowned slaty flycatcher) Longest latinized bird
name.
Prolasioptera aeschynanthusperottetii Mani, 1943
(cecidomyiid fly)
Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum Nair, Kostichka &
Kuntz (butternut canker)
Anaerobiospirillium succiniciproducens Davis,
Cleven, Brown, and Balish, 1976 (bacterium)
Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis Dong, 1978
(pachycephalosaurid dinosaur)
Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis Croft, 2007
(Miocene glyptodont from Chile)
Notiocryptorrhynchus punctatocarinulatus
(weevil)
Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides Brunetti,
1923 (stratiomyid fly)
Yamagutiplectognathotrema Paruchin, 1977 (new name for
Plectognathotrema Yamaguti 1971, which is a junior synonym
(homonym?))
Archaeohystrichosphaeridium (fossil
dinoflagellate)
Cancelloidokytodermogammarus (Loveninsuskytodermogammarus)
loveni Dybowski, 1926 (crustacean)
Brachyta interrogationis interrogationis var.
nigrohumeralisscutellohumeroconjuncta Plavilstshikov, 1936
(cerambycid)
Crassocornoechinogammarus crassicornis Dybowski, 1927
(amphipod)
Parapallaseakytodermogammarus abyssalis Dybowski, 1927
(amphipod)
Zienkowiczikytodermogammarus zienkowiczi Dybowski, 1927
(amphipod)
Toxophthalmoechinogammarus toxophthalmus Dybowski, 1927
(amphipod)
Siemienkiewicziechinogammarus siemenkiewitschii
Dybowski (amphipod)
Rhodophthalmokytodermogammarus cinnamomeus Dybowski,
1927 (amphipod)
Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis Dybowski,
1927 (amphipod) The above names were proposed by B. Dybowski for
amphipods from Lake Baikal; they were invalidated by the
ICZN.
Polichinellobizarrocomicburlescomagicaraneus
This name is given in Theodore Horace Savory's Naming the Living
World, page 83. Alas, he gives no more information about it.
Proterocameroceratidae (Ordovician Endocerida
nautiloid)
Stereoplasmoceratidae (Ordovician Orthocerid
nautiloid)
Pachycephalosauridae (dinosaur)
Mesembryanthamaceae (ice-plants) - Long family names
Saxifraga aizoon var. aizoon
subvar. brevifola forma multicaulis subforma
surculosa Engler & Irmscher (a variety of the saxifrage, a
flowering plant)
Aquilegia flabellata nana pumila alba 'Rama Lama
Ding Dong' (a cultivar of dwarf white columbine)
Afipia felis Brenner, Hollis, Moss, English, Hall,
Vincent, Radosevic, Birkness, Bibb, Quinn, Swaminathan, Weaver, Reeves,
O'Connor, Hayes, Tenover, Steigerwalt, Perkins, Daneshvar, Hill,
Washington, Woods, Hunter, Hadfield, Ajello, Kaufmann, Wear and
Wenger 1992 (bacterium) The author list may be abbreviated
"Brenner et al. 1992" in citations.
Aha ha Menke, 1988 (sphecid)
Ia io (vespertilionid bat)
Plesiothrips o Girault (thrips)
Limnophyes er Saether, 1985 (chironomid)
According to Saether, er means "hedgehog."
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