Its name is a reference to the Red Queen's race in Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass, in which the chess board moves such that Alice must continue running just to stay in the same place.
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The genus Stygimys ("Styx mouse") was named by R.E. Sloan and Leigh Van Valen in 1965.