My favorite binomial name is for the common black rat, whose binomial name is Rattus rattus. Shit sounds like someone making shit up on the spot without knowing how Latin works.
Xanthocephalus, from Greek Xanthous, meaning yellow, and cephalos, meaning head (compare with “cephalopod” meaning head-foot). That’s right. The binomial name is also just “that thing with the yellow head”
You could learn the binomial name: Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Note: “xanthocephalus” is Greek for “yellow head”.
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My favorite binomial name is for the common black rat, whose binomial name is Rattus rattus. Shit sounds like someone making shit up on the spot without knowing how Latin works.
Xanthocephalus, from Greek Xanthous, meaning yellow, and cephalos, meaning head (compare with “cephalopod” meaning head-foot). That’s right. The binomial name is also just “that thing with the yellow head”