
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).
annelidous ("pertaining to segmented worms") and
adecticous ("with immobile mandibles", of pupae)
Shortest 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.
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.
Corrugatocephalum ouei (marine cestode
tapeworm from megamouth sharks)
Ia io (vespertilionid bat) Only all-vowel
binomial.
Cyclostremiscus beauii (Prosobranch
gastropod from Florida) Five consecutive vowels
Iyaiyai Evenhuis, 1994 (fossil chaoborid fly) Seven
consecutive vowels.
Loxolophodon (Eocene ungulate) Five o's in 12
characters.
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