Talk:List of organisms named after works of fiction

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Smithsonian Magazine [1]
Natural History Museum (London) [2]
Gizmodo [3]
CNET (pre-2020, so reliable) [4]
The Science Times with a focus on Sauron [5]
Comicbook.com, focuses on Star Wars, which is a sublist of this list [6]
Die Kunst der Bennenung
Inspiracje i osobliwości naukowego nazewnictwa zoologicznego

Greek mythology section should be removed

There are just way too many species named after Greek gods, heroes, damsels, nymphs, etc. I realise that species such as Oedipus rex (now superseded) often appear in this kind of lists because of some curiosity value, but having a section on Greek mythology is like having a page for, say, species named after geographical locations: there are so very many that it's pointless to even try to list them. El monty (talk) 14:17, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More for Asterix

Abraracourcix: https://www.academia.edu/16681515/Abraracourcix_gen_nov_of_Ricaniidae_from_the_Lowermost_Eocene_Oise_amber

Ordralfabetix: https://www.gbif.org/species/119396345/verbatim _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:57, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

They are now in the list.El monty (talk) 10:47, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Where did this come from?

"the long and "turned-up" rostrum of this species recall to mind the long and snub nose of the mischievious Pinocchio."

I have commented this out of the article because I have looked at the cited reference, and it is not there. My suspicion was aroused by the three very unscholarly blunders in the English, namely the lack of a capital letter at the beginning, the failure of the verb recall to agree with its singular subject, and the ignorant form of the word mischievous. So, where did it come from? Kelisi (talk) 02:09, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A simple search of the misspelt word "mischievious" would have shown you that the quote comes from a footnote in page 12 the cited document. The "blunders" you point out come from the fact that a) the quote is just a fragment of the original sentence, hence no capital letter, and b) English is not the authors' first language. Grammatical and orthographic errors are common in papers written by non-English speaking scientists. El monty (talk) 10:23, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]