Hebejeebie

[Jan Bosselaers]

Another entertaining site on biological nomenclature is:

http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy/taxEtym.html

Cheers,

Jan

Susan J. Meades wrote:

>Although not validly published, I discovered this name while annotating the
>student collections at Algoma University:
>
>Solidago hellifiknowus
>
>Take care,
>Susan J. Meades
>Northern Ontario Database Project
>c/o Great Lakes Forestry Centre-CFS
>Adjunct Professor, Algoma University College
>Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
>
>Doug Yanega wrote:
>
>>Many of you are aware that I maintain the largest single compendium
>>of unusual scientific names on my website - but said website has been
>>rendered inoperative due to a malicious hack on the server, and
>>department politics has prevented the restoration of said server. In
>>other words, my webpage is no longer available, until further notice,
>>so I can't direct everyone there to gawk at the hundreds of other
>>examples. Hebejeebie and the spider genus Orsonwelles are the two
>>most recent additions. However, Menke's original compilation is
>>online at http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/HBS/BOGUS/menke.html
>>
>>If my website is ever put back online, I'll notify people. I suppose
>>I should even consider removing it from my signature file until then.
>>Sigh.
>>
>>Peace,
>>--
>>
>>Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
>>Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
>>phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>>            http://entmuseum9.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
>>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>>
>
>

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