Paul,
I don't know of anything named after Linnaeus, but there are two interesting
accounts of naming by him, and about the naming of him.
http://waddell.ci.manchester.ct.us/g_gossip.html
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/biology/mnps/papers/Nietering198212.html
Enjoy,
Bruce

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From: "Monfils, Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: coeruleus . . and question about Linnaeus


> Wow, that's a lot of coeruleus!
> On the other hand, we have:
>
> Bungarus caeruleus (a snake)
> Litoria caerulea (a frog)
> Cyprinella caerulea (a fish)
> Labidochromis caeruleus (a fish)
> Ethiostoma caerulea (a fish)
> Timalus caeruleus (a moth)
> Plexippus caeruleus (a spider)
> Cyanocorax caeruleus (a bird)
> Elanus caeruleus (a bird)
> Parus caeruleus (a bird)
> Hygrophorus caeruleus (a mushroom)
> Couchioplanes caeruleus (a bacterium)
> Oxypetalum, Xiphidium, Allium, Conospermum, Polemonium, Calochilus, and
> Gladiolus caeruleum (flowering plants)
>
> Which brings me back to my original question, which really wasn't all that
> important :-)  What is the difference between caeruleus and coeruleus?
> Actually I think a previous post on the subject may have provided a clue.
> Someone yesterday mentioned, I believe, that coeruleus is from new Latin.
> So I suspect it is probably a derivative of the classical Latin caeruleus.
>
> 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.
>