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...
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.”