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Long Names

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.

Short Names

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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