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List Of Organisms Named After Famous People
In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar, species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in ''-i'' or ''-ii'' if named for an individual, and ''-orum'' if named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in ''-ae'', or ''-arum'' for two or more women. This list includes organisms named after famous individuals or ensembles (including bands and comedy troupes), but excludes companies, institutions, ethnic groups or nationalities, and populated places. It does no ...
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Biological Nomenclature
Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern biological taxonomic nomenclature, each in their own broad field of organisms. To an end-user who only deals with names of species, with some awareness that species are assignable to families, it may not be noticeable that there is more than one code, but beyond this basic level these are rather different in the way they work. The successful introduction of two-part names for species by Linnaeus was the start for an ever-expanding system of nomenclature. With all naturalists worldwide adopting this approach to thinking up names, there arose several schools of thought about the details. It became ever more apparent that a detailed body of rules was necessary to govern scientific names. From the mid-19th century onwards, there were several initiatives to arrive at worldwide-accepted sets of rules. Presently nomenclature codes govern the naming of: * Algae, Fungi and Plants – ''International Code o ...
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List Of Organisms Named After Famous People (born Before 1800)
In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity is an eponym, eponymous taxon, and names specifically honoring a person or persons are known as patronym (taxonomy), patronyms. Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar, species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in ''-i'' or ''-ii'' if named for an individual, and ''-orum'' if named for a group of men or mixed-sex group, such as a family. Similarly, those named for a woman often end in ''-ae'', or ''-arum'' for two or more women. This list is part of the List of organisms named after famous people, and includes organisms named after famous individuals born before the 1st of January 1800. It also includes ensembles ...
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Lists Of Things Named After People
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ...
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Lists Of Eponyms
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also

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Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a more inclusive group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy. The principal ranks in modern use are domain, kingdom, phylum (''division'' is sometimes used in botany in place of ''phylum''), class, order, family, genus, and species. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the founder of the current system of taxonomy, as he developed a ranked system known as Linnaean taxonomy for categorizing organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms. With advances in the theory, data and analytical technology of biological systematics, the Linnaean system has transformed into a system of modern biological classification intended to reflect the evolu ...
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Lists Of Biota
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ...
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List Of Organisms Named After Works Of Fiction
Newly created taxonomic names in biological nomenclature often reflect the discoverer's interests or honour those the discoverer holds in esteem. This is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference works of fiction. Literature Greek mythology William Shakespeare ''Robinson Crusoe'' ''Gulliver's Travels'' Victor Hugo ''Moby-Dick'' Lewis Carroll Mark Twain ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' Arthur Conan Doyle Rudyard Kipling ''Dracula'' ''Peter Pan'' H. P. Lovecraft ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' Vladimir Nabokov J. R. R. Tolkien Enid Blyton ''Dune (franchise), Dune'' Aubrey–Maturin series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' ''Discworld'' ''The Witcher'' ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' ''Harry Potter'' ''Rumo and His Miraculous Adventure'' ''Ready Player One'' Other literature Comics ''The Adventures of Tintin'' ''Asterix'' DC Comics Marvel Comic ...
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List Of Unusual Biological Names
The trouble with unusual names has not been lost on scientists when needing to explain genetic diseases to lay-people. This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell deficit, clefting and hypocalcaemia for chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletions". This name was abandoned due to the no-win connotations. In 1993 Alfonso Martinez Arias, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, was ordered to change the name of the gene he had discovered, VELCRO, because of copyright issues with Velcro. The gene was renamed to ''puckered''. In 2005, Pokémon threatened to sue the discoverer of POKEMON because the name was attracting attention when its link to the development of cancer was published. Genes and proteins In the early discovery days of genomics, genes were often given creative names upon discovery. Although a nomenclature committee has now been formed, several of these names ...
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List Of Taxa Named By Anagrams
In the biological nomenclature codes, an anagram can be used to name a new taxon. Wordplays are one source of inspiration allowing organisms to receive scientific names. In the binomial nomenclature, as scientists have latitude in naming genera and species, a taxon name can therefore be an anagram, provided it remains pronounceable. For example, in the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'', a new generic name can be taken from the name of a person by using an anagram or abbreviation of it. William Elford Leach was among the first naturalists to use taxonomic anagrams, and, in 1818, he described several isopod genera that were each other's anagrams of 'Caroline' : '' Conilera'', '' Lironeca'', '' Nerocila'', '' Olencira'', and ''Rocinela ''Rocinela'' is a genus of isopods in the family Aegidae, and was first described in 1818 by William Elford Leach.Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2015)''Rocinela'' Leach, 1818 In: Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Merrin ...
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List Of Rose Cultivars Named After People
Among the individuals or fictional characters who have had rose cultivars named after them are the following: A * A. Drawriel (1887 — Leveque, France) * Abbé André Reitter (1904 — Welter, Germany) * Abbé Berliez (1864 — Guillot, France) * Abbé Bramérel (1871 — Guillot, France) * Abbé Giraudier (1869 — Levet, France) * Abe Lincoln * Abel Carrière (1875 — E. Verdier, France) * Abelle Weber-Paté (1904 — Lambert) * Abraham Darby (1985 — Austin, United Kingdom) * Achille Gonod (1864 — Gonod, France) * Adam Messerich (1920 — Lambert, Germany) * Adélaïde de Meynot (1882 — Gonod, France) * Adélaide d'Orléans (1826 — Jacques, France) * Adelaide Hoodless * Adèle Heu (1816 — Vibert, France) * Adèle Pavie (1850 — Vibert, France) * Adèle Prévost (1848) * Ady Endre emleke (2004 — Mark, Hungary) * Adolf Deegen (1935 — Böhm, Czechoslovakia) * Adolf Horstmann (1971 — Kordes, Germany) * Adolphe van den Heede (1904 — Lambert) * A ...
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List Of Bacterial Genera Named After Personal Names
Many bacterial species are named after people, either the discoverer or a famous person in the field of microbiology. For example, ''Salmonella'' is named after D.E. Salmon, who discovered it (albeit as "''Bacillus typhi''"). For the generic epithet, all names derived from people must be in the female nominative case, either by changing the ending to -a or to the diminutive -ella, depending on the name.
. Microbiología (Sociedad Española de Microbiología), 1996, 12, 473–475.
For the specific epithet, the names can be converted into either adjectival form (adding -nus (m.), -na (f.), -num (n.) according to the gender of the genus name) or the genitive of the Latinised name. * '''' –
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