Maybe more of a birding connection than first thought. I found this in the Misc
Section under "Things named after Biologists".
"When Ian Fleming was in the Caribbean writing Dr. No, he picked the name for
his hero off the bookshelf, from The Birds of the West Indies by James Bond."
Original message
Terry,
For other curiosities in nomenclature, have a look at
http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/
There are some strange minds in the world of taxonomy it would
seem, why else would you call an Earwig Labia minor or a clam Venus
mercienaria, let alone a trilobite Han solo.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 15/02/2010, at 12:39 PM, Terry Bishop wrote:
Non birding but interesting. There has been many a discussion on strange
names given to birds. Now they have done it to a new and rare snail
being
named.
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/news/release_detail.asp?entitynum=471
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