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Scientist names a fish parasite after Bob Marley

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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