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what’s your favorite Latin name for a plant/animal/sea creature? Mine is Tsuga Canadensis- Eastern Hemlock
78 upvotes, 13 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Environmental Baddies. "what’s your favorite Latin name for a plant/animal/sea creature? 

Mine is Tsuga Canadensis- Eastern Hemlock"
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Anonymous 5d

Gotta be a tie between Boops boops and Hotwheels sisyphus.

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Anonymous 5d

Gorilla gorilla gorilla

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Anonymous 5d

Catalpa speciosa because its special to me

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Anonymous 5d

Dasypus novemcinctus

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Anonymous 4d

that’s a hard one bc there’s so many i love but i’ll narrow it down to four LOL Larix laricina - Tamarack Toxicodendron radicans - Poison Ivy Hemimysis anomala - Bloody Red Shrimp Betula alleghaniensis - Yellow birch

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Anonymous 5d

obelia !!!

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Anonymous 1d

Pinus

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5d

I love that one

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5d

No way like those are real?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

Just googled - it’s a species of small fish and a spider discovered in china in 2024

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 5d

just them in general tbh. love them to death

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4d

omfg how could i forget the Wolverine - Gulo gulo, which basically just means “gluttonous glutton” lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4d

No way that’s so funny 😆

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