Scientist names a fish parasite after Bob Marley
Scientist names a fish parasite after Bob Marley
This Caribbean fish is named after Bob Marley.
(Credit: By Elizabeth Brill)
If Stephen Colbert is lucky enough to have a beetle named after him, why shouldn't scientists honor Bob Marley with his own biological species?
This week it was announced that Paul Sikkel, an assistant professor of marine ecology and a field marine biologist at Arkansas State University, has discovered and named a "gnathiid isopod" after the reggae legend.
Unlike Marley, though, the creature isn't...
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