too impressed for words!

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listening to Radio 4 last night, to a programme about nomenclature of species/organisms, etc.

to my delight and excitement, they informed me that there are five trilobites named after The Sex Pistols, one for each. i am practically sick with joy!

what a fantastic thing!

here's a link, of other famous people things are named after, as well as other fascinating and bizarre facts about nomenclature.

http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html

Arcticalymene viciousi, A. rotteni, A. jonesi, A. cooki, A. matlocki ... oh, how brilliant is that?!

lol! i like the way they've put the letter "i" on the end of each name to make them sound more exotic!

How cool is that? Wonder if there is anything named after Jello Biafra... and if not, WHY???