What is the longest animal 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 name for an animal?

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?

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, as verified on 1 January 2021.
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What is the longest plant 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 animal has the most names?

The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the greatest number of names, with over 40 in English alone.
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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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What is the longest bird name?

Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides Brunetti 1923 - family Stratiomyidae. The Southeast Asian soldier fly, native to Thailand, has the longest valid scientific name for any animal, and any macroscopic organism.
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What dinosaur has the longest name?

The Longest Dinosaur Name

The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". Its fossils have been found in China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese paleontologist Dong.
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What insect 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 animals start with an A?

Alphabetical list of animals that start with A
  • Aardvark.
  • Aardwolf.
  • African Wild Dog.
  • Albatross.
  • Alligator.
  • Alpaca.
  • Anaconda.
  • Anemone.
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Who has 1000 letters in their name?

HOUSTON - CoSandra Williams says she spent years planning her daughter's name. It may take that long before the girl can say it. The 6-year-old girl has more than 1,000 letters in her first name - and a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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What's the weirdest name?

Weird unisex baby names
  • Xela. ...
  • Geo. ...
  • Moxie Crimefighter. ...
  • Sparrow Midnight. ...
  • Seven. ...
  • Moroccan. ...
  • Everest. Want a name that can move mountains? ...
  • 100. Rocket.
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What is a evil cat name?

1. Azrael. The name Azrael is associated with the Angel of Death in many religions. Perhaps the name is fitting for the Azrael we're talking about—a brown cat with a white chest who serves as Gargamel's right-hand evil cat in the “Smurfs” cartoon.
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What is the stupidest animal names?

1-5 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 are some fake animal names?

Funny Animal Names
  • Agra cadabra. An agra cadabra beetle. ...
  • Aploparaksis Turdi. Close up of an Aploparaksis turdi. ...
  • Aye-aye. Aye aye there primate! ...
  • Blobfish. A blob fish out of water – say what you see! ...
  • Boops Boops. Boops boops coming through… ...
  • Chicken Turtle. A confusingly named chicken turtle. ...
  • Colon Rectum. ...
  • Common Cockchafer.
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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 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 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 dinosaur has 1000 teeth?

Nigersaurus -- so named because it was discovered in Niger -- had the long neck of a Diplodocus and up to 1,000 teeth in its intricate jaws, Sereno, of the University of Chicago, said on Monday.
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What dinosaur has 600 teeth?

Nigersaurus had a delicate skull and an extremely wide mouth lined with teeth especially adapted for browsing plants close to the ground. This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth.
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What's the shortest dinosaur 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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Which bird can lift elephant?

The answer would be 'Rukh', otherwise called 'Roc'. It is a mythical being from the Arabian tales and folklore. It was supposed to be a huge eagle capable of carrying off elephants.
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What animal has the biggest beak?

The longest bill is that of the Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), at 34–47 cm (13–18½ in) long. The longest beak in relation to overall body length is that of the sword-billed hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) of the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia.
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Who has a beak?

Beaks are present in a few invertebrates (e.g., cephalopods and some insects), some fishes and mammals, and all birds and turtles. Many dinosaurs were beaked. The term bill is preferred for the beak of a bird, platypus, or dinosaur. Many beaked animals, including all birds and turtles, lack teeth.
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