@schratze sometimes, scientific names are good

have you ever seen the gelae genus of beetles? consisting of three species with generally normal scientific names, and then the delightful names gelae belae, gelae rol, gelae baen, gelae fish, and gelae donut

pronounced "jelly belly", "jelly roll", "jelly bean", "jellyfish", and "jelly donut" respectively
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@schratze i'm not sure if it makes it better or worse that boops boops is entirely coincidental though

it's from bo-, cow, + -ops, eye, because the person who named them thought their eyes looked like cow's eyes
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