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The specific name honours James and Louise Temerty, the chairman of Northland Power and the ROM Board of Governors and his wife, who have supported the museum for many years.
The name "Ingenia" derives from the Ingen Khoboor Depression of Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia, from whence it was collected, while the specific name yanshini was chosen in honour of academician Aleksandr Leonidovich Yanshin (1911–1999), who was adviser and mentor to Rinchen Barsbold during his time at the Paleontological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The specific name, pealii, is in honor of "Mr. S.E. Peal", who collected the two specimens from which British zoologist William Lutley Sclater described this snake as a species new to science.
The specific name, butleri, is in honor of "Mr. A.W. Butler" of Brookville, Indiana.
The specific name of the type species is named after the geographical provenance of the specimens, close to the city of Contamana.
The specific name manchurica refers to Manchuria, the historical region where its type locality was situated.
The specific name kirki is in honor of explorer John Kirk (1832-1922), who has donated various other specimen of snails (not this species) to the Natural History Museum.
The specific name is derived from the Frank kingdom of Neustrie which covered northwest France, created after the death of Clovis I.
The specific name honors artist and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe for his vicious caricatures which mostly have very pointy noses.
The specific name "parangexanthematica" literally means 'like exanthematica' in Filipino, referring to their close resemblance to double-tailed tent spiders (Cyrtophora exanthematica).
The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The specific name commemorates English naturalist Albert Stewart Meek who collected the type series in May 1903 at Owgarra north of head of the Aroa River in Papua New Guinea.
The first remains of Dorygnathus, isolated bones and jaw fragments from the Schwarzjura, the Posidonia Shale dating from the Toarcian, were discovered near Banz, Bavaria and in 1830 described by Carl Theodori as Ornithocephalus banthensis, the specific name referring to Banz.
The specific name referred to the nearby ancient battlefield of the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes, where William the Conqueror had in 1046 defeated his enemies.
The specific name is derived from the name of geologist Werner Ernst, who found the fossil, holotype SGWG 85, in the summer of 1963 at a loampit near Grimmen, in strata dating from the Toarcian.
It was first described in 2010 and its specific name "nhatrangensis" derives from the locality where it was originally found, Nha Trang Bay in Vietnam.
The specific name honours Richard Meinertzhagen, who shot the type specimen in Kenya and had it shipped to the Natural History Museum in England.
The chosen specific name cranei was in honor of Sir Peter Crane who, with Steven Manchester and David Dilcher, first discovered the Almont Ginkgo fossils.
The specific name is named after Candelária, a city near the fossil locality in which the holotype was found.
The specific name is derived from the name of the type locality of the genus, Mariakani.
The specific name honours Zhao Dayu, the president of Shenyang Normal University and a contributor to the founding of the Western Liaoning Institute of Mesozoic Paleontology.
The specific name, robiniae, is derived from the New Latin name, Robinia, which is the generic name of the black locust tree, Robinia pseudacacia, on which the larvae feed.
The specific name honours one of the most famous historic inhabitants of that city, the legendary strategist Zhuge Liang.
The specific name honoured Justin Hofmann, a six year-old school boy from Newton, New Jersey, a participant of a contest for children by Discover Card, the winner having a dinosaur named after him.
Oiceoptoma noveboracense's Latin specific name means "pertaining to New York" (Latin Novum Eboracum + -ensis), referring to the original source of the type specimen.
Its specific name is from a Spanish exclamation expressing surprise: "caramba".
The specific name or epithet, leopoldi, is in honor of Leopold III, King of the Belgians.
The specific name, schinzi, is in honor of "Herr Dr. Hans Schinz", who collected the first specimens in 1884 & 1885 in the Kalahari Desert.
The specific name komadori is, somewhat confusingly, the common name of its relative the Japanese Robin in Japanese.
The specific name honours superintendent of public schools Oramel W. Lucas, who collected two vertebrae for Cope, near Arkansas River.
The specific name, karanshahi, is in honor of Mr. Karan Bahadur Shah, Professor of Herpetology and Mammalogy at Tribhuvan University in Nepal.
The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).
The specific name palicolarum is according to the Latin words "pile" that means "pile" and Latin word "colus".
The specific name or epithet, mechowii, is in honor of Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow, a Silesian-German explorer of Africa.
They are polyphagous in herbaceous plants, mainly feeding on Carduus nutans (hence the specific name) and Silybum marianum, as well as on Salvia, Urtica and Cirsium species.
The specific name conveys the superficial similarity of this species to Agrionympha vari.
The specific name breweri is in honor of Dr. Stephen Brewer, the owner of Manitou Cave.
In the original volume of Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in which the species was described, the specific name is spelled as bucculantus in the legend, but is considered to be a typographical error and ignored.
The specific name is a reference to Exit 3 of the New Jersey Turnpike, which is the closest highway exit to the type locality.
It is native to Europe (the specific name madritensis refers to Madrid, Spain) but it has been widely introduced elsewhere, such as North America, where it is found in many areas.
The specific name refers to its external similarity to a tineid moth.
The specific name guadalupensis refers to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe.
The specific name is derived from the type-locality (Mount Diablo) and the Latin
The specific name is derived from the type-locality (Mount San Jacinto) and the Latin suffix -ensis (denoting place, locality).
The specific name is derived from the type-locality (Temblor Range) and the Latin suffix -ensis (denoting place, locality).
The specific name admirale refers to Admiralty Gulf which is next to the islands where this species lives.
The specific name is derived from the Greek prefix neo- (meaning new) and the specific name lycii, in reference to its relationship with Coleophora lycii.
The specific name is derived from the Latin para (meaning equal, like) and gallivora, referring to the close affinity with Coleophora gallivora, especially in the structure of the male genitalia.
It was first described in 2013 and its specific name derives from the Sa Pa District where it was discovered.
According to Gentry (2010), the generic name "indicates an alcelaphine of the north" (differentiating it from Damalacra, the fossils of which were discovered near the Cape of Good Hope), while the specific name honors Elisabeth Vrba.
The Great Spangled Fritillary is a butterfly and while there is no Pale Clouded White there is a Pale Clouded Yellow (as well as several groups of butterflies commonly known as Whites), while Mellonella is the specific name of the Wax Moth Galleria mellonella.
He is commemorated in the scientific specific name for Hume's Owl, Strix butleri.
The specific name is derived from the Latin simi- (meaning similar) and punicea the name of Endotricha punicea and refers to the similarity of the two species.
The specific name is apparently in honor either of the Japanese malacologist Yoichiro Hirase (1859–1925) or of his son Shintaro Hirase (1884–1939).
The specific name is derived from the generic name, Manilkara, one of two principal larval hosts.
The specific name is derived from the generic name, Pouteria, of the only recorded larval host.
The specific name stanleyi is in honor of explorer Henry Morton Stanley.
The specific name iheringi is in honor of the zoologist Hermann von Ihering, who collected the type specimen.
The specific name "integumentum" refers to a "cover" over the ostium of the female.
The specific name bekaensis is named after the Beqaa Governorate, where it occurs.
The specific name refers to Cotytto, the goddess of unchastity, originally worshipped in Thrace.
The specific name is derived from Latin para (meaning next to or near) and refers to similarity between this species and Longipenis deltidius.
The generic name Maesiella as well as the specific name maesae are named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.
Surprisingly, the specific name tintinnabulum does not refer to The Adventures of Tintin character Captain Haddock, whose catchphrase was "Blistering barnacles"; it was designated by 18th century taxonomist Linnaeus and refers to the animal's shape — a tintinnabulum is a handbell .
The specific name parangatum refers to words "parang gatas" from Filipino language, that points to its milky color.
The specific name refers to Dido, founder of Carthage, daughter of Belus of Tyre, and sister of Pygmalion.
The specific name sayanus is a tribute to naturalist Thomas Say.
The epithet or specific name, klauberi, is in honor of herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber.
The specific name cecillei is in honor of the French admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille.
The scientific specific name commemorates Alexander the Great whose armies introduced eastern parakeets to Greece.
The specific name is given after the Minoan civilisation, which flourished during the Bronze Age in Crete, and whose cultural influences spread to Cyprus, Anatolia and the Levantine coast.
The specific name is a Latin rendering of "Plop the gnome", a reference to the Belgian children's TV character Kabouter Plop.
The Jewish Encyclopedia states that during the time of the Second Temple, the festival of Shavuot received the specific name of "'Aẓarta" as cited by Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews (iii. 10, § 6) and in the Talmud's tractate Pesahim (42b, 68b), signifying "the closing feast" of Passover.
The generic name refers to the village of Shokawa, located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, while the specific name honors the collector of the first specimen, one Mr. Ikoi Shibata.
The epithet or specific name, hammondi, is in honor of amateur naturalist General William Alexander Hammond, M.D.
According to Sulu actor George Takei, "Gene Roddenberry's vision for Sulu was to represent all of Asia, being named for the Sulu Sea instead of using a specific country-specific name".
The specific name "cupido" comes from the resemblance of the trichomes to the wings of Cupid, the child god from Greek mythology.
The specific name webbiana commemorates the English botanist Philip Barker Webb.
Both the specific name, "vrijeuni", and the acronym in the common name, "VUB", refer to Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Free University of Brussels.
The specific name commemorates Thai zoologist and conservationist Dr Boonsong Lekagul.