Naming a newly discovered species of any\nanimal is a prestigious privilege, and you will think of the best suitable name\nfor that creature. It doesn’t mean that scientists don’t occasionally have very\nlittle fun with naming a newly discovered animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To name the newly discovered animal, you need\nto follow the 18th<\/sup> century’s framework of binomial nomenclature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to this, there is a rule that when\nnaming a newly discovered species of any creature, you should not name it after\nyourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A person wishing to name a newly discovered creature can pretty much give it a name one likes. Many have targeted celebrities as it is not only a great way to get publicity, but it is also to honor a famous personality they admire the most. For example, Ferdinando Boero, jellyfish experts, got enrolled for a prestigious fellowship to study jellyfish in Northern California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Boero found a new species, and he wrote to\nZappa, a famous singer, asking if he would like the honor of being immortalized\nforever as the official name of a cool jellyfish, which he had discovered.\nZappa’s wife told him that there is nothing she would like better than having\nthis cool jellyfish named after her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many similar examples that we could\nnot cover in this article. Going back to the original post, there is an\nexception! It turns out that there is a case that belongs to none other than\nCarl Linnaeus himself. He named a “small useless European weed”\nSiegesbeckia, after a botanist Johann Siegesbeck with whom he got sick. We know\nit is hillarious and unbelievable, but it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There could be more such examples, but none\nthat got the attention of people as much as this one. Some of the scientists\nand researchers in history are known to do such things that they are remembered\nfor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Naming a newly discovered species of any animal is a prestigious privilege, and you will think of the best suitable name for that creature. It doesn’t mean that scientists don’t occasionally have very little fun with naming a newly discovered animal. To name the newly discovered animal, you need to follow the 18th century’s framework […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A story of Boero and Zappa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n