But when it comes to naming species, they often let their hair down.

When she started, there were 8,500 officially named species, compared with about 10,000 now.

Winterton named the species not after its color but his daughter.

When people started naming species, Latin was the language most widely used around the world.

He published 218 monographs in the course of his life and named many species.

Though he made only a few important discoveries by himself, he named more than 200 species.

There are several other researchers with the same name, that have also species named after them, for example:

In this journal they described and named several species.

Since then they have named numerous species, and made many new taxonomic combinations.

Robinson named the species in honour of its first collector.