Larry Eaton wrote,
"John Epler, the guy who named Dicrotendipes thanantogratis after the
Grateful Dead, has a web page of his own
(www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~johneplr/names.htm) that includes other odd names
including  Lalpa lusa, Agra vation and Etu brutus.  The fact that most of
the strange names belong to insects raises the question of the sanity of
those who choose not to study molluscs."

Not to mention their grammar. Didn't the original read, "Et tu, Brute?"
(And you, Brutus? or freely translated, You too, Brutus?). I don't mind
when people have fun with Latin names (Linnaeus did it), but they ought to
make a better job of it.

Some odd names from the world of trace fossils: Diplocraterion yoyo (a
U-shaped burrow that went up and down); Hondichnus (a burrow that resembled
a motorcycle track, at least to its author), Walcottia devilsdingli (for a
place name, Devil's Dingle, which I suspect means exactly what it sounds
like), and Taenidium satanassi (probably named without realizing that it
sounds odd in American English). As a reviewer, I once had to inform a
European author what a proposed name, Suculichnus, would sound like to
English-speakers. The name was duly changed, but sometimes I think I should
have left well enough alone.

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama