More humorous mil. acros.

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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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