What animal has the longest name?

The longest scientific binomial name given to any animal is Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides (containing 42 letters), which is a species of stratiomyid fly with a metallic green thorax and abdomen, known as the soldier fly.
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What is the weirdest animal name?

The 12 Weirdest Animal Names
  • of 12. The Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 12. The Penis Snake. ...
  • of 12. The Paradoxical Frog. ...
  • of 12. The Pleasing Fungus Beetle. ...
  • of 12. The Angora Rabbit. ...
  • of 12. The Raspberry Crazy Ant. ...
  • of 12. The Chicken Turtle. ...
  • of 12. The Ice Cream Cone Worm.
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What is the longest name of a mammal?

A fossil glyptodont from the Miocene of Northern Chile, which is one of the two prehistoric mammals that share the record for the longest name of any vertebrate animal.
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What is the most complicated animal name?

12 Animals With Hard-to-Spell Names
  • 1/12. Xoloitzcuintli. Family: Canidae. ...
  • 2/12. Uakari. Family: Pitheciidae. ...
  • 3/12. Ankole-Watusi. Family: Bovidae. ...
  • 4/12. Axolotl. Family: Ambystomatidae. ...
  • 5/12. Ptarmigan. Family: Phasianidae. ...
  • 6/12. Kusimanse. Family: Herpestidae. ...
  • 7/12. Coelacanth. Family: Coelacanthidae. ...
  • 8/12. Monte Iberia Eleuth.
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What animal has the shortest name?

  • 4 letters. Restoration of Yi qi (4 letters) Ia io Thomas, 1902 – Family Vespertilionidae. ...
  • 5 letters. Drawing of Foa fo (5 letters) Aha ha Menke, 1977 – Family Crabronidae. ...
  • 6 letters. Skull of Beg tse (6 letters) Loa loa (6 letters) ...
  • 7 letters. Copa kei (7 letters) Doto kya (7 letters)
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Top 4 longest names!!



What only lives for 24 hours?

#1: Mayfly — The Shortest Lifespan of Any Known Animal

These insects are the shortest living animals on the planet, as the adult lifespan of a fly from this species is only 24 hours.
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What is the ugliest animal in the world?

Top Ten Ugliest Animals
  • The blobfish was elected the ugliest animal in the world in an online poll that we ran. ...
  • The giant Chinese salamander is the world's largest amphibian and it can breathe through its skin!
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What animals have inappropriate names?

25 Animals with Funny/Stupid Names
  • White-bellied go-away-bird. ...
  • Mountain Chicken. ...
  • Gorilla gorilla gorilla. ...
  • Tasseled Wobbegong. ...
  • Colon rectum. ...
  • Dik-dik. ...
  • Aploparaksis turdi. ...
  • Agra cadabra.
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What bug has the longest name?

Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides is a species of fly in the family Stratiomyidae. It is native to Thailand. Its genus name comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "Near soldier wasp-fly", with its species name meaning "wasp fly-like".
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What is called a bear but isn't a bear?

Not a bear, not a cat

The binturong, commonly known as the bearcat, is neither a bear nor a cat.
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What is the longest food name?

Domestic pigeon. Rooster. The roasted head of dabchick. Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea hare.
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What dinosaur has the shortest name?

Yi is notable for having the shortest generic name of any dinosaur, containing only two letters. Its binomial name, Yi qi, is also the shortest possible under articles 11.8.
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What is the hardest dinosaur name to pronounce?

Huehuecanauhtlus. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico.
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What is a group of snakes called?

A group is called a snake den or pit. When someone refers to a snake den, the word den is being used as a collective noun. The collective noun highlights the fact that there's more than one snake in the group.
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What is a group of jellyfish called?

A smack of jellyfish

Other collective nouns for a group of jellyfish are bloom or swarm.
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What is a group of dogs called?

When animals get together in a group, we have a specific name for the group. For example, you probably know a group of dogs is a pack.
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What breakfast drink has the longest name?

If this drink wasn't so damn tasty, we'd resent it for causing us to have to re-calculate how drink names are displayed in our app – at 25 characters, it's probably one of the longest single-word drink names in existence!
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What plant has the longest name?

According to the Kew Plant List, the longest species name for a plant is Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum, the official scientific name for, ironically, an extremely small species of asparagus (and one that has no common name), and which, including the single space between genus and species, is 39 characters ...
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What superhero has the longest name?

Captain Fantastic joins a number of people with unusually long names, including Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams, a girl born in Texas in 1984.
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What is the weirdest dog name ever?

Top 50 Wacky Dog Names
  • Dunkin Butterbeans.
  • Cheesebro.
  • Choo Choo Boo Boo.
  • Empress Tzu Tzu.
  • Farrah Pawcett.
  • Fiona Penny Pickles.
  • Monsieur Le Colonel Moustache.
  • Tango Mango.
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What is the weirdest cat name?

These are definitely some of the most unique and funny cat names you can come up with.
  • Bombalurina.
  • Bustopher Jones.
  • Carbucketty.
  • Griddlebone.
  • Grizabella.
  • Growltiger.
  • Jellylorum.
  • Jennyanydots.
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What is the prettiest animal?

10 Most Beautiful Animals in the World
  • The world's most beautiful animals list.
  • Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
  • White Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
  • Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
  • White peacock.
  • Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
  • Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)
  • Chameleon (Chamaeleonidae)
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What is a scary animal?

Scariest animals in the world. Black Mamba - scariest animals. Black Widow - scariest animal - via inverse.com. Rats - scariest animal. Piranha - scariest animal.
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What is the ugliest number?

Ugly numbers are those number whose prime factors are 2, 3 or 5. From 1 to 15, there are 11 ugly numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15. The numbers 7, 11, 13 are not ugly because they are prime. The number 14 is not ugly because in its prime factor the 7 will come.
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