A breath of fresh air, or rather too much of a good thing?
October 21, 2020 2:24 PM   Subscribe

 
Throwing in a Welsh town as the specific name seems like it's cheating a bit, to me. I'm all about giving names that display the variety of human effort in biological science (and would not be averse to moving beyond Latinized naming conventions). The article's abstract doesn't outline whence the name, though I hope this bacterium was isolated from Welsh soils.
posted by tclark at 2:47 PM on October 21, 2020 [2 favorites]


I wonder if someone in New Zealand is looking for Myxococcus Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahuensis?
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:48 PM on October 21, 2020 [1 favorite]




just call it m. llanfairpwllensis! its what the Welsh would do.
posted by supermedusa at 3:07 PM on October 21, 2020 [1 favorite]


The first article does clarify that the bacterium came from Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll soil.
posted by zompist at 3:24 PM on October 21, 2020 [2 favorites]


I expected a sentence starting with “A newly described bacterium sets a world record for” to end about 3000% more horrifyingly than this did, this welsh letter salad thing is actually a pretty good twist ending all things considered.
posted by mhoye at 3:43 PM on October 21, 2020 [2 favorites]


Long bacterium? Hell it damn near killed 'im
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 6:17 PM on October 21, 2020


Throwing in a Welsh town as the specific name seems like it's cheating a bit, to me.

Floccinaucinihilipilificator!
posted by fairmettle at 1:47 AM on October 22, 2020


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