Crab Species Named After Harry Potter Series

    • deebashree.mohanty@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: Jan 27 2017 6:33PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 27 2017 6:39PM
Crab Species Named After Harry Potter Series

 An underwater crab species has been named after Harry Potter and Severus Snape – characters from  J K Rowling’s popular novel series. 


The species: The new species and genus of crab, Harryplax severus, also honours researcher Harry Conley, who had collected the crab specimen about two decades ago. The new species is a tiny crab measuring less than a centimetre in both length and width and can be found deep inside a coral rubble. 

Why Harry Potter: The crab’s species name, severus, is inspired by another character from the wizarding world — Prof Severus Snape, who, despite being a central character in the series, keeps his background and agenda mysterious until the very end. The species is “just like the present new species which has eluded discovery until now”, researchers said.

The Others 

the others 
Neopalpa donaldtrumpi after Donald Trump: An endangered species of moth has been named in honour of Donald Trump because the insect shares his hairstyle. 

Tosanoides obama after Barack Obama: In a tribute to his marine conservation efforts in the Pacific, a fish was named after Barack Obama. The maroon and gold creature is found 300 ft deep in the waters off Kure Atoll in Hawaii 

Eristalis gatesi after Bill Gates: This species was named after Bill Gates for his great contributions to the science of Dipterology.


Is There A Character You Would Want To Name After A Sea Creature? Why? 

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Annada Dash KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA -PANVEL

Yes. I want Percy Jackson to be named after a sea creature because he is the son of poseidon, God of water

Adrija De D.A.V Public School, Thane

Yes. I want a species to be named after Merpeople (mentioned in The Harry Potter series) bcause they are the people residing in water in the magical world.

N.BHANU KIRAN Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Yes

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