The strange ways we name new species and the politics involved is explained in Stephen Heard’s book Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632831-000-why-do-scientists-give-some-species-such-unusual-names/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home