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Now, if you look over here, you will see that we have an example Tropinius autodescriptans which was recently mounted for display. Note the fine Latinate canines. As you can see, this particular T. autodescriptans is of the schisomates subspecies, which is believed to have split off from the parent C. latinicus some time in the mid-18th century... Or put another way, Canis Latinicus (or at least Gratuitous Latin) as specifically applied to ersatz species names, used either to make something sound scientific or to poke fun at such uses. In biology, the formal naming system used for describing species is known as binomial nomenclature (that is to say, "naming using two names"). It was developed by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeusnote This version of his last name is itself Canis Latinicus; one of his ancestors, upon becoming a clergyman, took a Latinized version of the family name. Carl himself was later ennobled, and took the surname 'von Linné' in the early part of the 1700s as part of the larger system he created for classifying organisms.Extended explanation His system grouped animals by their observed similarities (which later work refined into grouping by their presumed common descent, a la Darwinian evolution) with the groups at the top (originally Animalia and Plantae) being the broadest and each successive level branching out to more specific groups until finally reaching the generic (genus) and specific (species) categories whose names are paired to form the 'official' name of the kind of organism. Linnaeus himself gave names to thousands of species and genera (as well as the families, orders, classes, phyla, and finally kingdoms which they were grouped into) in this manner, and all of the names he chose were composed of either Latin roots, or Greek ones, or some combination of the two. For example, his name for human beings is Homo sapiens, which is the Latin for "wise man". It has since been customary to form new names from Latin or Greek roots when describing a newly-discovered creature, but it isn't required. The only real rules are that the name be given in the form Genus species (that is, with the generic name capitalized and the specific name lowercase); that it doesn't duplicate a name; and that the first name given (if the organism is 'discovered' by different people at different times) has priority, so long as everyone agrees that it is valid and can come to a conclusion about where it fits in the 'tree of life' (which is not nearly as straightforward as it sounds). It is preferred that the name describes the organism, but it isn't enforced, and even when it is, the use of Greco-Latinate roots (or even roots from unrelated languages, such as classic Sanskrit or modern Mandarin Chinese), or even just Latin sounding roots, can make it hard for someone unfamiliar with the roots to guess what it means. Discovering and describing a new species is Serious Business, but part of that business is getting a chance to put your personal mark on scientific history by choosing the species name, so a certain amount of whimsy is allowed. As a result, Binomium ridiculus is often Truth in Television, as the discoverers can use almost anything that suits their fancy: place names (usually where the specimen was found, but not always), names based on the discoverers' names, names of the expedition's patrons, names of famous individuals who have some tenuous resemblance or connection to the organism, anything.Examples Hallucigenia sparsa (a fossil so strange it was described as resembling something seen during a drug trip); Kiwa tyleri (named for the discoverer, Paul Tyler; for double fun, the common name in English is 'Hoff crab', because its large mats of cilia are thought to resemble David Hasselhoff's famous rug of chest hair); Tullimonstrum gregarium ("Tully's Monster", a common but puzzling fossil invertebrate which has long defied classification); and Agra schwarzeneggeri (named for its well-defined musculature which is described as resembling Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime). For example, The Other Wiki has a Long List of species named after celebrities. Given all of this, it is natural for writers to make fun of these sorts of names, or at least mimic them when trying to sound smart. Sub-trope to both Canis Latinicus and Gratuitous Latin. Sister trope to Whateversaurus, which often uses a Binomium ridiculus for the dinosaur's name. Often part of a Wildlife Commentary Spoof. Authors who are being fast and loose with scientific accuracy may apply this as Techno Babble to make their absurd claims seem like less of an Ass Pull. |
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The title character in Megamind improvises the name of a spider to make it sound more threatening, "Arachnis deathicus." | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), the Mobians are collectively referred to as "Mobo-sapiens", despite the fact they clearly belong to different animal species. | |
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The Great Mouse Detective: When Basil takes control of the Robot Queen during Ratigan's "coronation", he drops one of these as part of a punchline to get a rise out of his nemesis.note The correct term for the common rat is Rattus norvegicus. | |
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Mocked by The Cinema Snob in his review of a interracial romance exploitation film: "[The full title] would be Black Is Beautiful (Africanus Sexualis), for when you want your movie subtitles to be similar to what they give Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner." | |
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In Rayman: Revolution several of the bosses have fake Latin names. Boss Biditank is "Poubelus Agrovis", Boss Chenille (a large caterpillar) is "Kapounus Grobilus", and Grolem 13 (Guardian of the 4th mask) is "Bigum Aerum Tornadus Recyclus". | |
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The Brothers Grunt: The earliest ancestor of the grunts is known as "Gruntus Not-Quite-Us". | |
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The Simpsons: One episode gave a direct nod to the Road Runner series by having a freeze-framed Bart and Homer identified as "Bratus Don'thaveacow'us", and "Homo Neanderthalus" respectively. Another Road Runner parody appears at the beginning of "The Scorpion's Tale", where a photorealistic road runner and coyote and labeled Propertus Warnerbros and Copyrightus MCMXLIX, respectively. Otto then runs over the road runner and is labeled Licensis suspendibus. |
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In the movie Rio 2, Bia's pop-up book has an anaconda listed as "Anacondus Giganticus". | |
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Starting with the Sea and Sandbox Update, default species names in The Sapling are generated from a series of roughly 300 vaguely Latin sounding suffixes with another syllable thrown on the front. Descendant species have a 60% chance of keeping the suffix of their parent species. | |
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101 Dalmatians: The Series: "The Making of..." has several shout-outs to other shows, movies, and cartoons. One of them is a scene parodying the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons, with Cruella in the role of Wile E. and Spot in the role of Road Runner. Spot is introduced as Birdae Multi-Spotticae, and Cruella is introduced as Designera Skinabonica. | |
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The X-Encyclopedia gives fairly reasonable Latin names to all the major nonhuman species of the X-Universe, though the text admits that applying Terran nomenclature to extraterrestrials is inexact at best. In order: Sepioteuthis nishalaensis (Boronnote a friendly, nonviolent race of squid people), Vultur inflatius (Paranidnote a theocratic avian species), Homo hodiensis (Splitnote very human-looking Proud Warrior Race Guys), and Varanus carpolucror (Teladinote profit-obsessed Lizard Folk). It also puts the mysterious semi-insectoid Khaak in order Bilateria and the Sapient Cetacean Wenendra in order Cetacea. | |
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One episode gave a direct nod to the Road Runner series by having a freeze-framed Bart and Homer identified as "Bratus Don'thaveacow'us", and "Homo Neanderthalus" respectively. | |
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Walt Disney Presents: The special "Man in Space", guest scientist Dr. Heinz Haber suggests that men who will one day thrive in the depths of outer space will be considered a new species and pitches the term Homo sapiens extraterrestriallis, meaning "space-man". | |
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NetHack features coyotes as dungeon-monsters which in homage to Wile E. are (uniquely) labeled in this fashion. | |
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The Discworld Noir manual mentions the Disc's version of Linneus, Linoleum, who came up with such classifications as Bonuus Canii (good doggies — werewolves), Hortus Decorus (lawn ornament — dwarfs), Stuitus Saxum (stupid rocks — trolls), and Nosferatu Sanguineus (bloody vampires). His death was ruled a suicide, although exactly which species he commited it through remains unknown. | |
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The Vortigaunt species in Half-Life is "Xenotherium subservilia" or "Subservient alien beast". The real Latin word for "subservient" is "subserviens". | |
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit reveals that the Loch Ness Monster has the scientific name Touristus trappus, despite the real name being Nessiteras rhombopteryx, though the writer was most likely unaware of this. Other cases include the titular Were-Rabbit being Carrotus apetitus giganticus and the Were-Cow Numerous pendulus udderis. | |
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There's also the short "Wild About Hurry", which combines Genius Bonus with Getting Crap Past the Radar: Wile E. is given the name Hardheadipus Oedipus — that is to say, hard-headed motherfucker. | |
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Lethal Company: The Jester is given the scientific name of Insaneus Thingus. A particular standout because the scientific names of the other creatures in the game are far more grounded by comparison. | |
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The Nintendo Power guide for Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 divides enemies into classes with punny pseudo-Latin names. Edibilis Boringus are common, weak enemies that exist mainly for Yoshi to eat and turn into eggs; Harrassimentia Phlyoverus are Airborne Mooks; Projectilia Ritebakatchia shoot projectiles; Ucantia Defeatus are tough enemies, Invincible Minor Minions, and bosses; Mostosti Vomitonus let Yoshi breathe fire after eating them; and Dudim Phreykunoutonthis only contains Fuzzies. While on Mario, one character guide said “Yoshi, properly known as T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, had been held captive in an egg until Mario (Homo nintendonus) bopped along and rescued him." |
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In Momo, a group of children play a make-believe game where they're explorers discovering new sea creatures. At one point they get into a debate about whether the creature they've found is a Blancmangius viscosus, a Jellybeania multicolorata, or a Chocolatus indigestibilis, and later they find the last living specimen of the majestic Teetotum elasticum. | |
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The Head over Heels manual gives the title characters silly Latin-inspired names: Headus Mouthion and Footus Underium. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy, Groot's rap sheet mentions that his species is "Flora colossus". | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: Inverted in the Old World Blues DLC, where the formal name for the Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is the given name for a unique Spore Plant (a type of genetically-engineered giant Venus Flytrap which spits toxic spores at the player) found near the 'X-22 botanical garden'. | |
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Gurglewocky from Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams has the scientific name "Oneirophagus Rex". | |
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Joueur du Grenier: Fittingly, the intro to the Road Runner review, where the game is identified as "video gamus pourritus" ("rottenus"), and the Joueur du Grenier (in Wile E. Coyote's role) as "testeuris enervus" ("iratus revieweris"). | |
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In Conker's Bad Fur Day, Professor von Kriplespac describes Conker's species as Furrius squidgetterius. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, the Critic introduces Sonic as "Franchisicus Clumsicus" and Tails as "Dumbassas Indistressas". | |
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The Troggles in the Munchers games have the genus name "Trogglus" and species names such as "smarticus", "normalus", and "timidus". Only the last of these is a real Latin word (and it means exactly what it looks like). The Muncher is also identified as "Munchicus spriticus" in Word Munchers and "Munchicus digitus" in Number Munchers. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: 1st Edition Advanced D&D. Most dragons are in the family Draco and have Canis Latinicus genus, species, and subspecies names that reflect their natures or Breath Weapon. The Monster Manual had the following: Black = Causticus Sputem, Blue = Electricus, Brass = lmpudentus Gallus, Bronze = Gerus Bronzo, Copper = Comes Stabuli, Gold = Orientalus Sino Dux, Green = Chlorinous Nauseous Respiratorus, Red = Conflagratio Horriblis, Silver = Nobilis Argentum, White = Rigidus Frigidus. Monster Manual II. Cloud = Cumulus Welkin, Mist = Nebulus Obscura. Basic D&D supplement GAZ10 The Orcs of Thar. The humanoid species are given Latin-sounding genus, species (and sometimes subspecies) names. Bugbears: Ursus Bipedis Bugburianis, Ursus Bipedis Vulgaris, Ursus Bipedis Hyborianis Gnolls: Canis Erectus Meridionum, Canis Erectus Septentrionum, Canis Erectus Hilarus Goblins: Goblinus Occidensis, Goblinus Oriensis, Goblinus Goblinus, Goblinus Hyborianus Hobgoblins: Goblinus Fortis, Goblinus Grandis Kobolds: Canis Minor Militaris, Canis Minor Rapidus, Canis Minor Numerus Ogre: Homo Monstrum Bellicosus, Homo Monstrum Brutalis, Homo Monstrum Grossus Common Orc: Orcus Porcus, Orcus Hyborianis, Orcus Imperator Rex |
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Treasure Planet has a species of Space Whale that Dr. Doppler identifies as "Orcus galacticus". | |
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In Chapter 68 of The Victors Project, Johanna does bird calls/sex noise impressions of the other Victors while employing copious amounts of such "scientific names" in her performance in the Victors' Talent Show. These include the Brutus overextenious, the Connorus wankerus, the Abernathy drunkus and the Mags stillridinghardus. | |
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Pusheen the Cat: The strip Pusheen's Scientific Names For Plants, in which Pusheen chews on various plants while giving them silly scientific names like "Bechewed leaphytum" and "Longarnea tastivata". Catnip gets "Lovelis bestplantaria". | |
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In Beyond Good & Evil, you can scan any creature and be given a scientific name for it. This is useful when seeking rare creatures is your goal, but can also be done to people to learn their origins, since the planet is populated by dozens of different alien species. Notably, there are Funny Animals whose identifiers are based on those of their real-world animal counterparts. This seems to indicate that they came about as the result of Uplifting. | |
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In the Halo universe, all the Covenant species, in addition to having a nickname (e.g., "Elites") and a formal name ("Sangheili"), also have a faux-Latin scientific name ("Macto cognatus"). You can read all the names and the meanings behind them in this forum post. | |
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Noob sometimes has the recurring alchemists use fictional Latin-sounding names for plants, as a parallel to Latin scientific names from real life. | |
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Psychonauts 2 has the Truheltia Memonstria, a trio of Foul Flowers that Raz fights within Bob Zanotto's mind. They're Bob's alcohol-warped perceptions of Truman, Bob's boss (and nephew) who fired him, Helmut, Bob's husband who he lost twenty years ago, and Tia, Bob's mother who died when he was young, as a memory monster triad. | |
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A plot point in Zootopia involves a fictional variant of crocus with the plausible-sounding scientific name Midnicampum holicithias, which turns out to be commonly known as "night howlers". | |
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In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, you can help Tang with cataloguing the Vertumnan flora by making up scientific names for them such as Wonkius shrubbius and Purpleus grassium. | |
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The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades includes a few bizarre taxonomy for the strange Rhinogrades of the Hy-yi-yi Islands, such as Tyrannonasus imperator, Otopteryx volitans, Hopsorrhinus macrohopsus, Mercatorrhinus galactophilus, Archirrhnos haeckelii, Emunctator sorbens, Rhinotaenia asymmetrica, Rhinotalpa phallonasus, etc. | |
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Sly Cooper has a species of giant wolf called "Lupus gigantomus". Which also happen to be regular, animalistic wolves in a setting of anthropomorphic animals. | |
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The Piranhacus Giganticus (a giant Piranha Plant) from the Super Mario Bros. series games. | |
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A damselfly named Umma gumma. | |
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Space Jam: A New Legacy makes a direct reference to the Road Runner cartoons. When LeBron James is running from Bugs Bunny, who is driving an Acme truck, the scene freezes to show faux scientific names for them. | |
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I Am Weasel: The episode "I Am Clichéd" had one for Weasel (Ferretis-i-am-is) and Baboon (Pinheadis-redbuttis) as a nod to the Roadrunner and Coyote themselves. | |
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In the Italian dub of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Kine the talking fish is referred to as a Nasellus loquacis (talking nasello). This is also a Dub Species Change, as he is an ocean sunfish (Mola mola) in the Japanese version. Once more, in the English dub, he is misidentified as a blue surgeonfish (Paracanthurus hepatus). | |
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In Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon Y, the Pokédex entry for Oddish gives it the scientific name Oddium Wanderus. No other Pokémon is given such a name in any entry in the series. | |
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In The Star Diaries, during the Eighth Voyage the protagonist learns that alien scientists refer to humans by the scientific name Monstroteratum furiosum; the rest of their phylogenetic classification for humans is similarly pretty much a long string of insults. | |
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Latchkey Kingdom has multiple made-up species: Rattas Dungeness, the dungeon rat. Diet consists largely of monsters and adventurers that have killed each other. Pellicius Feria — "leather everyday" — a giant bat. Here are Fulgur Muris — "lightning mouse" (Pikachu) and Adventurix Juvenalia — the protagonist. |
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Discworld: Rincewind has a run-in with the "Crockus Gittus, or common-or-garden boring old codger." | |
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Referenced and subverted in the Wild Kratts episode "Liturgusa krattorum", in which the Kratt brothers have a preying mantis named in honor of their Real Life work in children's biology edutainment. Learning of this, Zack Varmitech attempts to re-name Shadow the black jaguar cub "Zackis greaticus", only to be chewed out by Aviva for how that's not how the nomenclature system works. | |
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The educational Goofy short "Freewayphobia" describes three different types of troublesome driver one might encounter on freeways in this fashion: there's the slow, timid, and overly-cautious Driverius timidicus; the bad-tempered, impatient, and aggressive Motoramus fidgetus; and the careless, inattentive Neglecterus maximus. The sequel "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" includes Stupidicus ultimus, the driver who neglects his vehicle's maintenance, drives exhausted or even drunk, and is generally careless on and around the freeway. | |
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Bulbasaurus and Aerodactylus are prehistoric creatures named after Pokémon creatures. The only known species of the former genus is Bulbasaurus phylloxyron, with its specific name meaning "leaf razor" (a not particularly subtle reference to the Pokemon's signature move Razor Leaf). The name however is also legitimately descriptive of the creature: it had unusually bulbous nasal structure for a dicynodont and a razor-sharp beak for biting off leaves. The paleontologist who named it said those were the reasons for the name, but admitted the Pokemon references "may not be entirely coincidental". | |
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Toe Jam And Earl: Many Earthlings follow this naming convention. Justified in that the terms were coined by aliens. | |
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Club Penguin: Dot once refers to crabs as "Clubpenguinus Crabus" (with the name of the species also being capitalized) after creating a crab costume. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Tape", Gumball records his family in what is a parody of nature documentaries. Richard is referred to as the Moobus gelatinous, Nicole is referred to the Kickbuttus hystericus, and Anais is referred to as the Runtus decepticus. | |
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The opening titles contain grids of news-relevant items, each with a fictional binomial name. The most obvious one is John Oliver himself, with the label "Hostus Mostus." | |
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The Bugs/Wile E. outing "Rabbit's Feat" has Wile E. in pursuit of the common western rabbit. "Rabbitus Idioticus Delicious... I believe that's the scientific term for it." | |
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Good Eats often gives the actual scientific name of ingredients (e.g. Brassica oleracea for cabbage...and broccoli...and Brussels sprouts...and much else). However, from time to time, a fake name will be given to a manufactured ingredient (e.g., a cheese) or to a highly-processed one (e.g., Blackus incanus for sliced black olives in a can).note The actual binomial name of all domestic olives, whatever their color or processing, is Olea europaea. The joke is carried on to Iron Chef America (of which Alton is the host). | |
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Lost in Space (1965) subverts this when Dr. Smith announces in horror the arrival of "Canis lupus, the werewolf". "Canis lupus" just means ordinary wolf. | |
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My World… and Welcome to It: In "The Human Being and the Dinosaur," John caustically refers to his managing editor Hamilton Greeley as being either a "Hypocrite gibbon" or "One-track-minded baboon" with a scientific name of "Hamiltonis stupidicus." | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures had one short called "Love Stinks", which introduced Calamity Coyote as "Devius Coyotius", Little Beeper as "Expedious Birdius", and Fifi le Fume as "Sexius Skunkius". Amazing that the censors let that one pass... | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants has a couple examples. In the episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic", King Jellyfish's Latin name is given as "Cnidaria Rex", which to be fair is real Latin. As "Cnidaria" is the phylum jellyfish belong to, and "Rex" being Latin for "king". In the episode "Cephalopod Lodge", the moray eel is referred to as "Cantankerous Moray Eelius". In "Plankton Gets the Boot", Karen scans a disguised SpongeBob, and his species is listed as "Spongist Buffoonist". In "Yellow Pavement", when Squidward is disrupted by SpongeBob hopping on a pogo-stick, the screen freezes and text pops up labeling him "Porfireous Aggravatus". |
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The Epic Rap Battles of History episode "Lewis and Clark vs. Bill & Ted" has the former call the latter dickweeds, while holding up an illustration of Bill and Ted as garden weeds with heads, with the caption "Weedus Dickus" at the bottom. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Tyranid faction does this in 4th where, in true 40k fashion, each unit was given three names in it's lore section; the Official Imperial Designation (which is functionally their common name), a "Common Name"(which is more of a slang), and their Scientific Name (i.e: this trope). For example the Genestealers are officially called "Genestealers", known as "Stealers"/"Leech"/"Scuttler", and their scientific name is "Corporaptor hominis" (or in the specific case of "the leech", "Corporaptor ymgarli") This is also used for the various abhumans in their "official" designations, such as Ogryns being called Homo sapiens gigantus, or Beastmen being called Homo sapiens variatus. The Supplementary fluff book Xenology, which presents itself as a scientific article in-universe, has a number of these for various Xenos. Notably it gives a different name for some of the Tyranid species (Tyrannus tyrannus for the Warrior, where in the codex it's named Tyranius gladius instead). Due to the context the book is presented in, it's likely that any inconsistencies can be chalked up to it being early research while the later codex would be it being officially "refined". |
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines: Near the end of the movie, Aaron wears a shirt depicting a dinosaur with his face on it, the "Aaronosaurus". Its scientific name is Likesium fruitsnacksium. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", while Twilight is observing Pinkie Pie, she describes herself as observing the Pinkius pieicus in its natural habitat, and she totally didn't just make that up. | |
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Doctor Who originally called its Lizard Folk the Silurians, after the Silurian epoch. Later writers, having learned that was the wrong epoch for the time frame they were trying to establish, called them "Homo reptilia" instead. This is also problematic, as being reptiles, they could not possibly be members of the mammalian Homo genus. | |
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In addition, Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton has both Crichtonsaurus and Crichtonpelta named after him. They're ankylosaur species. | |
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It's easy to miss but in Tarzan, Professor Porter refers to rhinos and baboons as Rhinoceros bihornius and Theropithecus babunious respectively, neither of which is the actual scientific names of any real-life species of rhinoceros or baboon. Theropithecus is a legitimate genus but it refers to the gelada baboons living in the Ethiopian highlands, while the "true" baboons seen in the movie belong to the genus Papio. Similarly, Rhinoceros is a valid genus... for the one-horned Indian rhino, whose species name is unicornis. | |
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In Dr. Fegg's Encyclopeadia of All World Knowledge, the Turkish Little Rude Plant (originally featured in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch parodying David Attenborough's nature documentaries), which resembles a bare bottom when its leaves are uncovered, is taxonomically identified as Buttoxia enormosa. | |
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Bobby's World: In "Bobby's Big Broadcast", one of Bobby's imagine spots parodies the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons, with Derek in the role of the former, and Bobby in the role of the latter. Derek is introduced as Largius Wolfus Dorkus and Bobby is introduced as Kiddius Imaginarius. | |
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At the end of The News Quiz Series 112, Episode 7, Andy Zaltzman reports that the human species is to be renamed, because scientists can't say the "sapiens" bit without laughing and then crying. Options are homo idioticus, homo intransigens, homo cantankerous, or homo nincompoopulus. | |
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At first, Jurassic Park's movie looked a bit odd to paleontologists, as the "velociraptors" were far too large (actual members of the genus Velociraptor were about the same size as chickens and turkeys). Then along came a discovery of a raptor-family dinosaur in Utah, every bit as big as the raptors in the movie and even bigger. It was dubbed Utahraptor spielbergi. Technically, the animal is now called Utahraptor ostrommaysorum. Another scientist, however, named a species of pterosaur (flying reptiles related to the dinosaurs) of the genus Coloborhynchus, "Coloborhynchus spielbergi", although its validity as a separate species of Coloborhynchus is currently under debate, and may instead be a seperate genus Maaradactylus. | |
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The Flemoids from Chex Quest follow this naming convention, all in the "Flemoidus" genus. Flemoidus commonus, Flemoidus bipedicus, Flemoidus quadrumpus, and so on. | |
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Musician Sting has an Amazonian tree frog named after him — Dendropsophus stingi. | |
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Paddington: The scientific name for Paddington's species is given as Ursa marmaladus on the museum exhibit Millicent Clyde created for Paddington. Paddington himself is supposedly a spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), though he doesn't really look like one. | |
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The Pikmin games provide scientific names for all the various enemies. For example, the Final Boss of Pikmin 4 gets "Deicanis perditum". | |
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And in "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", Wile E.'s Burmese Tiger Trap catches a Burmese Tiger, Surprisibus! Surprisibus! | |
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Bonk's original Japanese title is "PC Genjin", meaning "PC Barbarian" and a pun on the name of the system it was released for, PC Engine. Ostensibly, the "PC" in his name stands for Pithecanthropus Computerurus. | |
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Alice in Wonderland: When the talking flowers ask Alice what species or genus she belongs to, she refers to herself as a "Genus Humanus Alice". Justified in that she is a little girl, and does not understand how scientific terminology works. | |
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The Soup or Sonic cartoon even gave the Road Runner's "beep, beep" a scientific name ("beepius-beepius"). | |
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The "tooth fairies" in Hellboy II: The Golden Army are given the scientific name Carcharodon calcarea, which however is similar to the actual scientific name of the great white shark. | |
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HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami: Botanist Hermoso names the new orchid species he discovered "Orchidus hermorroïde" and is called on it. | |
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The Croods: A lot of their prehistoric Mix-and-Match Critters have these made up by the writers. For instance, the Punch Monkey is Jabbinbash arboriannai, the Girelephant is Mammoth frecklarium, and the Piranhakeet is Flockinlots devourus. | |
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My Little Pony: The Movie: When the creatures of Klugetown are getting closer to the Mane Six and Spike, Capper saves them at the last moment, lying to everyone saying that the Ponies are infected with Pastelus coloritis. | |
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Subverted in 2003's "The Whizzard of Ow" in which the actual binomial names were used: Canis latrans for the Coyote (barking dog — ironic when you realize Wile E. almost never speaks) and Geococcyx californianus for the Road Runner (Californian cuckoo that runs on land). | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: In "Blackfoot and Slim", the Wildlife Commentary Spoof introduces Dexter as Dexterius homogenius and Dee Dee as Deedicus deedicus. | |
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