These new spider species, belonging to six genera, were discovered at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Mi Xiaoqi, the first author of the study and a professor at Tongren University in Guizhou Province, is an admirer of Jay Chou.
Almost the same age as the musician, the researcher said that he used to name his discoveries based on animals' morphological features, but in 2022 due to a name coinciding with previous research by other authors, his paper was not published successfully.
Some netizens on social media have dubbed Mi "the ultimate fan" and lauded his approach of naming new species after pop songs as "the most innovative way to follow celebrities."
In 2020, a master's degree student from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology under the CAS discovered a unique trilobite dating back about 500 million years. He named it "Fantasy," inspired by Jay Chou's second studio album. The researcher told the media that the naming was his romantic way of paying tribute to his idol.
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