Jóźwiak Piotr, Rewicz Tomasz, Pabis Krzysztof
Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, Łódź 90-237, Poland.
Zookeys. 2015 Jul 16(513):143-60. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.513.9873. eCollection 2015.
We present a review of the etymology of zoological taxonomic names with emphasis on the most unusual examples. The names were divided into several categories, starting from the most common - given after morphological features - through inspiration from mythology, legends, and classic literature but also from fictional and nonfictional pop-culture characters (e.g., music, movies or cartoons), science, and politics. A separate category includes zoological names created using word-play and figures of speech such as tautonyms, acronyms, anagrams, and palindromes. Our intention was to give an overview of possibilities of how and where taxonomists can find the inspirations that will be consistent with the ICZN rules and generate more detail afterthought about the naming process itself, the meaningful character of naming, as well as the recognition and understanding of names.
我们对动物分类学名称的词源进行了综述，重点关注最不寻常的例子。这些名称被分为几类，从最常见的——根据形态特征命名——到受神话、传说和经典文学启发，也包括受虚构和非虚构流行文化人物（如音乐、电影或卡通）、科学和政治启发。一个单独的类别包括使用文字游戏和修辞手法创造的动物学名称，如同名异物名、首字母缩略词、变位词和回文。我们的目的是概述分类学家如何以及在何处找到符合国际动物命名法规规则的灵感，并对命名过程本身、命名的意义特征以及名称的识别和理解进行更深入的思考。
