I love the corpse flower, Amorphophallus titanum. Giant wonky penis.

Phidippus fartillis

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tit mouse

Liquidambar styraciflua really rolls off the tongue

Breaking the rules a bit with a trinomial but I think it’s important to post the longest tautonym trinomial: Coccothraustes coccothraustes coccothraustes

Aka the hawfinch

Sus domesticus

There is a genus of frog for which the Latin name is “Mini”. There are 3 types. Mum, Ature, and scule meaning that the binominal name of these frogs are:

Mini mum, Mini Ature and Mini Scule

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_(frog)

Fockea! A plant name thread!

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory bird of the true thrush genus and Turdidae, the wider thrush family.

Upon creation of the new genus, the five new species are Gelae baen, Gelae belae, Gelae donut, Gelae fish, and Gelae rol

Since Turdus is already mentioned, I always thought Columba palumbus was a really fun thing to say. And they live everywhere in Europe so they’re fun to point out.

Homo Troglodytes, the cave-dweller

Bonus info. Scientific taxonomy didn’t stop being racist until the 1970’s:

After World War II, the practice of dividing extant populations of Homo sapiens into subspecies declined. An early authority explicitly avoiding the division of H. sapiens into subspecies was Grzimeks Tierleben, published 1967–1972.[56] A late example of an academic authority proposing that the human racial groups should be considered taxonomical subspecies is John Baker (1974)

Not a plant, but I always giggle about Idolomantis Diabolica cause they’ve got the most intense name, but they’re so clumsy and goofy, they wobble and they’re so quick to flash their arms up which really just means they’re scaredy cats.

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Chorizia specioza (Palo borracho)

Yes I know the species was renamed recentlu but I’d be dead before they take away Chorizia speciosa from me