More humorous mil. acros.
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Mon Nov 6 03:18:25 UTC 2006
On 11/5/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There's a chigger whose scientific monicker is _Tribicula fujigmo_. For details,
> as well as other bizarre Linnaean names (including the fly _Phthiria relativitae_),
> see [http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html].
See also Mark Liberman's post on Language Log:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002833.html
--Ben Zimmer
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