https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/ Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2649 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:48:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2649 Sorry, I can’t help pointing out that Draculoides bramstokeri (named by my PhD supervisor, as it happens) is a schizomid, not a spider.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2648 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:32:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2648 Only a species? I have whole classes of frogs named after me :)No seriously, it may well be an urban myth that the “discoverer” of a species solely gets to choose the name, but it still impresses me that so many discoverers still choose to honor their own strange creative interests instead of just amending their own names.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2647 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:28:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2647 I’m pretty sure that my linking to podblack’s blog is cursed somehow. This is my second run at it.But now everything should be just fine…

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2646 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:17:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2646 Link is here – thank you!http://podblack.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/the-specialness-of-species/

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2645 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:01:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/07/species-names/#comment-2645 Link?

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