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Iouea de Laubenfels, 1955 (fossil sponge) Shortest with
AEIOU (and 4 syllables in 5 letters).
Aiouea Aubl. (Lauraceae)
Eydouxia (screw-pine),
Euryomia Burmeister, 1842 (beetle),
Eumyobia Townsend, 1911 (fly),
Joyeuxia Topsent, 1890 (sponge) Shortest with
AEIOUY.
Sticharthropterus (beetle),
Trichopentarthrum (beetle) Longest with
AEIOU.
Antistrephorrhynchus (extinct crustacean)
Longest with AEIOUY.
Lamelligomphus Fraser, 1922 (dragonfly),
Phragelliorhynchus (protozoan) Longest with
AEIOU in order (without and with Y).
Laetiporus Murr. (1904) (edible mushroom)
Shortest genus with AEIOU in order.
annelidous ("pertaining to segmented worms") and
adecticous ("with immobile mandibles", of pupae)
Other short biological words with AEIOU in order.
Muroidea (rodent),
Suoidea (superfamily including pigs),
Juloidea (superfamily of millipedes)
Shortest with AEIOU in reverse order.
Punctoschmidtella (crustacean) Longest
with AEIOU in reverse order.
Oxyuroidea (superfamily of nematodes) with AEIOUY
in reverse order.
Reticulomyxa (large amoeba) Alternating
consonant and vowel with all six vowels.
Haemodipsus lyriocephalus (louse) All vowels in each
name.
Cochlearius cochlearius cochlearius
(boat-billed heron) - all 5 vowels in each name.
Ussolzewiechinogammarus (crustacean) Longest
word which uses each vowel exactly twice.
Corydalis aeaeae X.F.Gao, Lidén, Y.W.Wang
& Y.L.Peng, 2008 (herb) Aeaea is the island of the sorceress
Kirke, and this is an enchanting plant. [Novon 18:
330.]
Corrugatocephalum ouei (marine cestode
tapeworm from megamouth sharks)
Ia io (vespertilionid bat) Only all-vowel
binomial.
Chicoreus beauii P. Fischer and Bernardi,
1857 (murex sea snail), and
Cyclostremiscus beauii (Prosobranch
gastropod from Florida) Five consecutive vowels
Bossiaeeae (a tribe within the legumes) Six
consecutive vowels.
Iyaiyai Evenhuis, 1994 (fossil chaoborid fly) Seven
consecutive vowels.
Trevelyana kouaouae Risbec, 1928
(nudibranch) Seven consecutive vowels.
Eoaequorea Tang et al. 2016 (Ediacaran
hydrozoan-like fossil) Eight vowels in 10 letters.
Poria sequoiae (redwood trunk rot) Nine
vowels in 13 letters.
Mytoxia sequoiae (millipede) and
Eoaequorea xingi give ten vowels in 15
letters.
Campsicnemus iii Evenhuis, 2011 (fly) The
epithet honors John Papa I'i, leading 19th-century Hawaiian citizen
and attendant to King Kamehameha II. [Bish. Mus. Occ. Pap.
109: 15]
Coelogyne yiii Schult. & de Vogel 2003
(Borneo orchid) named after a Mr. Yii. (See
also
Cavaticovelia aaa.)
I'm looking for candidates for longest genus and binomial with only one
different vowel. Surely others can improve on:
Loxolophodon (Eocene ungulate)
Channa barca (F. Hamilton, 1822) (snakehead
fish)
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