Kerry Mauck
Alex WildI'm so glad that entomologist Doug Yanega's list of funny, actual scientific names is still online. It's from the very early days of the internet, and still updated.
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html#%22LIGHTER%22%20LINKS
Includes
Abra cadabra Eames & Wilkins, 1957
Kamera lens Woodcock, 1917
Phthiria relativitae Evenhuis, 1985
Sam L.@alexwild this is excellent. My friends and I on @interactome have a fascination with funny scientific names, but I'm not sure any of us have seen this list before. Goes to show that the "old web" still has a lot of gems.
neville park@alexwild I see there are many spider names that are missing! It does have some of my favourite Platnick ones, _Notnops_, _Tisentnops_, and _Taintnops_. (Later workers have added to the trend.)