I remember reading somewhere that the "type specimen" of Homo sapiens is
designated to be Linnaeus. Now, that's as much honor as a taxonomist can
get.



>New Question!  Are there any mollusks named after Linnaeus?
>Or any animal
>species at all??  If not, why not?  It would seem appropriate
>that someone
>would have seen fit to honor the man who started it all!
>Well okay, he
>didn't "start it all", but his adaptation of binomial
>nomenclature is still
>the foundation of modern taxonomy.
>
>Paul M.
>