Here's another humorous shell name: Capulus sycophanta Garrard, 1961.
"Capulus" means "swordhilt" (this snail is shaped rather like a limpet),
and a "sycophanta" is a sycophant, a social parasite. Capulus sycophanta
lives attached to scallops, drilling a hole through the shell. By analogy
with Capulus danieli (Orr, 19__), it might be to steal the scallop's food
rather than to feed on the scallop itself. If so, then this is what
biologists call a case of "antagonistic symbiosis", where one animal
benefits from the association and the other is harmed.
 
Personally, I always found the scallop genus Amusium to be amusing, but I
don't suppose that the original author intended a joke.
 
Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama
 
References
 
Garrard, T. A., 1961, Mollusca collected by M. V. "Challenger" off the east
coast of Australia: Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, v.
5, p. 2-36, pl. 2. (Not seen. Trusting Orr, see p. 12.)
 
Orr, Virginia, 19__, The drilling habit of Capulus danieli (CROSSE)
(Mollusca: Gastropoda): Veliger, v. 5, no. 2, p. 63-67, pl. 7.