ABC - Amazing Biological Curiosities (part 1)
Once again, the natural world provides us with an array of animals and plants with rather unusual names. Here are some more curiosities with all very real, but peculiar Latin names given out of spite, humour or just plain madness...
Aa reichenbach - an orchid, and the very first genus name alphabetically.
Batman - a kind of fish.
Ittibittium - a mollusc, but a smaller one than those in the genus Bittium.
Calypso - an orchid and also a wasp.
Colon forceps - a kind of beetle; another species is called Colon rectum.
Torpedo - a species of ray.
Notnops, Taintnops, and Tisentnops - all spiders which were originally placed in the genus Nops, but then someone decided they were all different.
Hunkydora - a species of clam.
Darthvaderum - a kind of mite.
Bloodiella - a parasitic wasp.
Idea - a brightly coloured butterfly. 
Castnia inca dinkadu - a moth.
Pieza pi, Pieza rhea - both species of bee-flies.
Abra cadabra - A species of clam, now sadly in a new Genus Theora.
Ba humbugi - A snail, from the island of Mba, in Fiji.
Uebetia bigaulae - A moth, try out the pronunciation!
Heerz lukenatcha - a parasitic Braconid wasp.
Heerz tooya - another parasitic Braconid wasp.
Copeanus - fossil of a marine ray, named by Marsh, who was in conflict with Cope (a fellow palaeontologist) in the late 1800s.
Turbo - a type of snail believe it or not!
Vini vidivici - a parrot, now sadly extinct, from the Marquesas Islands.
Pawpawsaurus - fossil dinosaur, named after the rock formation it was found in.
Bonus - a Genus of limpet.
Disaster - a starfish.
Euphoria - a scarab beetle, whether it is always happy is another matter.
Jynx - a type of woodpecker known as a wryneck.
Lepidotrigla jimjoebob - a fish, perhaps named after the friends of the explorer?
Stupidogobius - a type of fish.
Banjos - another type of fish.
Pandemonium dis - fossil mammal from about 60 million years ago.
Trivia - a snail (no doubt small, dull in colour and not worth worrying about?).
