The Shettys hailed from the Bavaguthu clan who were among the biggest landlords in Kaup, Udupi district, Karnataka, India.
The southern African species Syngnathus temminckii (Kaup, 1856) was until recently synonymised with S. acus.
A native of Paniyur Belapu grama village near Kapu in the Udupi district, Shetty moved to Bombay in 1970 at the age of 18 in search of employment and became a waiter at a hotel in Chembur.
Kaup–Kupershmidt equation, the nonlinear fifth-order partial differential equation
Following the decline of Truso to the south and Grobin to the north in the course of the century, Kaup succeeded them as the principal regional colony of Swedish merchants from Birka.