Hi

As far as I know the only use of Linnaeus' name is for the plant genus
Linnaea. A common plant from Gastrikland was known as Campanula
serpyllifolia (named by Caspar Bauhin in 1596)but then changed to Linnaea
borealis by Gronovius.

In Critica Botanica Linnaeus wrote: 'Linnaea was named by the celebrated
Gronovius and is a plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded,
flowering but for a brief space- from Linnaeus who resembles it.'  A strange
thing indeed to write about yourself!!

Although Linnaeus established the binomial system of taxonomy, remember that
he was principally a botanist and a lot of his work was in this area.

Any other examples of his name used in taxonomy?

Alex

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Something about here
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
Regards
Luis
>
> 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.
>