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Re:New species of fungus identified via Twitter by Someone on Saturday May 16, 2020 @07:08AM (#23202451)
It’s fairly normal for names of things few people are interested in such as insects and fungi.

https://www.gadgette.com/2016/02/29/these-are-the-silliest-s... mentions, for example, Pieza pi and Spongiforma squarepantsii.

Google easily gives you more examples, for example https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-worlds-str..., which explains the rules are not very strict: “The name must not be offensive, must be spelled in only the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet and may be derived from any language. In fact, a name need not be derived from anything at all; the rules state that an arbitrary combination of letters is also perfectly acceptable.”

Re:New species of fungus identified via Twitter by conistonwater on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:46AM (#23203322)
> the rules state that an arbitrary combination of letters is also perfectly acceptable

To be honest, I always suspected this.

Re:New species of fungus identified via Twitter by throw_away on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:50AM (#23204390)
No length limits, huh? Now, just gotta find a novel bug...

edit: heh, you could code some nematode's dna sequence into its name.

Re:New species of fungus identified via Twitter by traverseda on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:00PM (#23206172)
Go through the wikipedia list of illegal numbers, encode them into latin letters...