Which scientific names do you think are the most fun to say? Personally, I like Lama glama and Hypostomus plecostomus.
Porcula salvania Symphalangus syndactylus Procyon lotor Macaca maura and Macaca mulatta Naja nubiae Wunderpus photogenicus Bitis gabonica Kinixys spekii Manouria emys Batagur baska Mecistops cataphractus Uncia uncia Vulpes velox Epicrates exsul Cuniculus paca Eidolon helvum Wish I knew more birds.
I've always liked the scientific names that couple as puns. Things like the braconid wasps Heerz lukenatcha and Heerz tooya, the fungus beetle genus Gelea (pronounced 'jelly') which includes species like Gelea baen, Gelea belae, Gelea donut, Gelea fish and Gelea rol and the flies Pieza kake, Pieza pi and Pieza rhea.
Fossil insects: Tyrannosorus rex Carmenelectra shechisme Moths: La cerveza La cucaracha La paloma (literally in Spanish they would mean: "The beer, The cockroach, The pigeon") Cave-dwelling insect: Gollumjapyx smeagol (authors told that names of classic mythology are plentiful used in binomials, so why not modern mythology too?) Longest scientific name of the species that I have photographed: Lobocarcinus paulinowurtenberbensis Some species named intentionedly for be the last alphabetically available scientific names ever: Zyzzyva rufula (weevil) Zyzzyx chilensis (wasp) A marine snail: Distortio anus (take in account that in Latin, anus means grandmother) In the same sense, Agrotis puta and Carabus putus (puta meaning whore in spanish, but in Latin is a very different meaning) A wasp: Stenodynerus fastidiosissimus. I wonder if the wasp stinged the descriptor... I always wondered a bit about specific epithets that have various separations: (Mammillaria stella-de-tacubaya, Brownea rosa-de-monte...) These separations are not allowed in animal names, except for a single character (c-album, m-flavum, etc) From other side I also like the name of the lice Columbicola extintus, who parasited passenger pigeon, so it went supposedly extinct with the species. After many years, the lice was rediscovered alive in a Columba fasciata There is a website dedicated to fun scientific names. I didn't visited it yet, but I found it and will take a look now. Here is: Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Another addition: I like the scientific name of the world largest animal ever, the blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus. In Latin, musculus means little mouse. The scientific name was put intentionally for the opposition of sizes
Michael Bright includes the following in 'The frog with self-cleaning feet.' Montypythonoides - a giant fossil snake Arthurdactylus conan-doylensis - a pterodactyl named after the author of The Lost World Dracorex hogwartsia - a dinosaur Ichabodcraniosaurus - a dinosaur found without a skull, named after Ichabod Crane, who was chased by a headless horseman in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ytu brutus - a water beetle Ba humbugi - a land snail Agra phobia and Agra vation - ground beetles Hunkydora - clam Abra cadabra - former name for a clam (Theora) Ptomaspis, Dikenaspis and Ariaspis - fossil fish representing Tom, Dick and Harry Peiza pi, Peiza rhea, Peiza kake, Peiza deresistans, Phthiria relativitae and Ohmyia omya - flies Gressitia titsadaysi and Tabanus rhizonshine - horseflies Rhyacophila tralala - a caddifly Eubetia bigaulae, Eubetia boop, Castnia inca dincadu and Notoreas - moths Vini vidivici - a lorikeet Ittibitium and Bittium - molluscs Ochisme, Dollichisme, Florichisme, Marichisme, Nanichisme and Polychisme - bugs named after George Kirkaldy's girlfriends Erechthias beeblebroxi - a false-headed moth Fiordichthys slartibartfasti - a triple-finned blenny Heerz lukenatcha, Heerz tooya, Pison eu, Verae peculya and Panama canalia - wasps Pericompus bilbo, Eurygenius, Oops, Cyclopcephala nodanotherrwon, Gelaw baen, Gelae belae, Gelae donut, Gelae fish and Gelae rol - beetles Cephise nuspesez - skipper butterfly Eremobates inyoanus - a camel spider Apopyllus now, Draculoides bramstokeri and Walckenaeria pinocchio - spiders