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unusual facts about binomial



Berlepsch's Canastero

The bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German ornithologist and collector Hans von Berlepsch.

Binomial QMF

The binomial QMF bank with perfect reconstruction (PR) was designed by Ali Akansu, et al. published in 1990, using the family of binomial polynomials for subband decomposition of discrete-time signals.

Black-throated Magpie-Jay

The binomial commemorates the Scottish naturalist Alexander Collie.

Calocybe carnea

Originally described as Agaricus carneus by the French mycologist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1792, this small pink mushroom has been through many taxonomical name changes over many years, and as a result has had many binomial names.

Chestnut-backed Thrush

The binomial name of this bird commemorates the American entomologist William Doherty.

Christmas Frigatebird

The binomial of this bird commemorates the British palaeontologist Charles William Andrews.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1835-1919), French zoologist, coined the binomial nomenclature name for the Chinese Monal pheasant, son of Isidore Saint-Hilaire

Giant Babax

The binomial name commemorates the British explorer Laurence Waddell.

Gomphidius glutinosus

Gomphidius glutinosus was initially described by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Agaricus glutinosus in 1774, before the father of mycology Elias Magnus Fries gave it its current genus and binomial name in 1838.

Grey-headed Parakeet

The binomial of this bird commemorates the German naturalist and explorer Otto Finsch.

Hose's Broadbill

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist Charles Hose.

Laurenti

Raymond Laurent (1917–2005), herpetologist, origin of reptile binomial name laurenti

Loveridge's Sunbird

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the American herpetologist Arthur Loveridge .

North Island Takahē

The binomial of this bird commemorates the naturalist and civil servant Walter Mantell.

Pittosporum eugenioides

The binomial qualifier eugenioides means "resembling Eugenia", a different genus of plants.

Poison oak

Poison Oak is part of the Sumac (Anacardiaceae)family, Toxicodendron diversilobum or Rhus diversiloba is the binomial name for Poison Oak in the Western United States and south to Mexico.

Poisson regression

CrimeStat: CrimeStat has Poisson, Poisson NB1, Poisson-Gamma(negative binomial), and Poisson-Lognormal regression models.

Polynomial

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, polynomial succeeded the term binomial, and was made simply by replacing the Latin root bi- with the Greek poly-, which comes from the Greek word for many.

Sooty-capped Hermit

The binomial commemorates the French entomologist Auguste Sallé.

Sorbus latifolia

Meanwhile, the horticulturalist, George Loddiges, whom Loudon held in high regard, labelled his arboretum trees at Abney Park Cemetery in 1840, as Sorbus latifolia, the currently-accepted binomial.

Stejneger's Stonechat

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger.

Ustad Mansur

The Siberian Crane painting was made well before it was formally described and given a binomial name by Peter Simon Pallas in 1773.

Wilkins's Finch

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Australian polar explorer and ornithologist Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins.

Willcocks's Honeyguide

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the General Sir James Willcocks.

Xerocomellus chrysenteron

This binomial was generally accepted for almost another hundred years, until 1985 when Marcel Bon decided to resurrect the former specific epithet communis, which resulted in the binomial Xerocomus communis.


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