List of taxa named after human genitals
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This a list of species, genera, and other biological taxa named after human genitals.
Epithets
- pubescens. The word originates from the Latin pubes, "adult, full-grown";[1] "genital area, groin"[2] (e.g., Pubis); "the down or soft hair which begins to grow on young persons when they come to the age of puberty".[3] The use of the term in biology to refer to hairiness or soft down is recorded since 1760 for plants and since 1826 for insects.[1]
- vaginalis. The common specific name is derived from the Latin vagina, originally meaning "sheath, scabbard, covering; sheath of an ear of grain, hull, husk."[4] The specific epithet may refer to a sheathed trait or habit of an organism (e.g. Alysicarpus vaginalis), or may refer to resemblance/relation to the vagina (e.g. Gardnerella vaginalis)[5]
Plants
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Families
- Orchidaceae. The type genus is Orchis, whose name comes from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some species of Orchis.[6]
Genera
Species
- Alysicarpus vaginalis
- Baumea vaginalis
- Chenopodium vulvaria[9]
- Festuca vaginalis
- Pontederia vaginalis
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Varieties
Fungi
Orders
Families
Genera
Species
- Amanita phalloides[11]
- Amanita vaginata
- Stachybotrys clitoriae - a species of Stachybotrys found on leaves of the Clitoria species Clitoria densiflora.[12]
Animals
Genera
- Phallichthys. The genus name literally means "phallus (penis) fish",[13] from the Greek phallos meaning "penis" and ichthys meaning "fish",[14] referring to the "comparatively huge" gonopodium, the modified anal fin used for copulation.[13]
- Xenophallus. The genus name translates to "strange penis".[15]
Species
Subspecies
Animal fossils
References
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