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Bazinga
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bazinga
Translingual
thumb|Bazinga rieki species, type species of the genus
Etymology
Identified in 2013 by Lisa-Ann Gershwin and Peter Davie, who based the name on en bazinga, a catchphrase from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory used to indicate a trick or prank, because they presume the species Bazinga rieki species had been mistaken for juveniles of other species. Bazinga is also the name of a seven-stringed harp that Gershwin and Davie suggest resembles the radial canals of the jellyfish.
Proper noun
1 m
genus family Bazingidae a small jellyfish native to Australia
References
1 Bazinga rieki
Bazingidae
1 Bazinga rieki
2013 Gershwin, L. and P.J.F. Davie A remarkable new jellyfish (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from coastal Australia, representing a new suborder within the Rhizostomeae Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 625
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