Cool Loser
Question: Does this have to be names in Dog Latin, or can it be for any Latin name of a fictional creature. Halo, for example, has Latin names for the covenant species, but they're in proper Latin.
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Any name which imitates a scientific 'Genus species' binomial (or even is a such a binomial in the Real Life cases) might count, if it is clearly meant humorously or pretentiously. It isn't a fast and hard rule, just so long as it is clearly meant as a 'scientific name'. While legitimate Latin can be used, the context of how the binomial is used is a part of the trope - obviously, a nature documentary using such names isn't an example, but using a real, ICxN registered binomial as part of a joke could be an example depending on how it is used.
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There's a species of beetle literally named Agra vation, and another named "Agra phobia". Oh, and flies. "Pieza rhea", "Pieza pi", "Pieza kake". I can't make these up!
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The Spiderwick chronicles features various examples of this trope.
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Mostly misuses of genera, and scientific suffixes such as "ensis" when "i" should use. Battletech does vice versa too!
The Maw features two examples, one for the titular Maw (Gobbelus upicus) and the Teltarians (Dangerus oblivious)
I wonder if Family Guy ever did this. Because Peter is a Bastardus obsesus