taxonomic name

The newly-discovered dinosaur has been given the taxonomic name Jakapil kaniukura, as paleontologists detailed in a recent article in the journal Scientific Reports.

Identified at the time as Cymbidium alatum, the orchid now goes by the taxonomic name Theocostele alata.

And yes, that includes looking for what the researchers have now renamed Boulenger’s speckled skink, which has now been granted the original taxonomic name.

The previous taxonomic name, T. pinguicolla, has been assigned to the lizards once found, but now long unseen, in the Victoria region.

More formally they’ve dubbed it Carcharhinus obsolerus—the second word in the taxonomic name is Latin for “extinct.”