Remember the taxonomy mnemonic you learned in high school biology? It will come in handy again when trying to parse news about the recent discovery of 46 new species (all of which belong to the same genus, Anahin) Southeast Asian micro-sense, one of them –Anauchen Picasso– Named after the famous Spanish artist. This newly discovered species has obtained an art historic name due to its angle (rather than the typical curve) pattern on its 3mm wide shell.
Paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal by international disease scientists (mollustrator scientists) zoo Sure A. Picasso Because of “Whorls drawn in Pablo Picasso style (like a similar art style called Cubism), this is different from other similar land snails.
As reported earlier this month on the biotech website Bioenginnerresearchers completed field trials in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, comparing their findings to decades of Mollusk specimens owned by the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Picasso is not the only cultural figure who owns a species named after him. Other examples include Rissoella Belkisaea sea snail named after the Cuban painter Belkis Ayón; ptomaphaginus isabellarossellinibeetle named after Italian actress and film producer Isabelle Rossellini; and Agromyza Princeia fly named after the iconic musician prince.
As for the Cubist artist Picasso, he is known for portraying mollusks on the other end of the microscopic spectrum.
