Editing David Attenborough (section)

====Species named after Attenborough====
{{main|List of things named after David Attenborough and his works#Taxonomy}}
[[File:Trigonopterus attenboroughi holotype - ZooKeys-467-011.tif|thumb|upright|''[[Trigonopterus attenboroughi]]'' ]]
At least 20 species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour.<ref name="Dijkstra2016">{{cite journal |last=Dijkstra |first=Klaas-Douwe B. |year=2016 |title=Natural history: Restore our sense of species |journal=Nature |volume=533 |issue=7602 |pages=172–174 |issn=0028-0836 |doi=10.1038/533172a |pmid=27172032 |bibcode=2016Natur.533..172D |doi-access=free}}</ref> Plants named after him include an alpine hawkweed (''[[Hieracium attenboroughianum]]'') discovered in the [[Brecon Beacons]],<ref>{{cite web |author=BSBI |title=Hawkweed named for Sir David Attenborough |url=http://bsbipublicity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/hawkweed-named-for-sir-david.html |date=24 December 2014 |access-date=24 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224172836/http://bsbipublicity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/hawkweed-named-for-sir-david.html |archive-date=24 December 2014 |url-status=dead}}, {{cite journal |date=December 2014 |title=''Hieracium attenboroughianum'' (Asteraceae), a new species of hawkweed |author=T. C. G. Rich |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=172–178 |journal=New Journal of Botany |doi=10.1179/2042349714Y.0000000051 |bibcode=2014NJBot...4..172R |s2cid=84969327 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/15032 |access-date=29 August 2019 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905203612/https://zenodo.org/record/15032/preview/Hieracium_attenboroughianum_njb91.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> a species of Ecuadorian flowering tree (''[[Blakea attenboroughi]]''), one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants (''[[Nepenthes attenboroughii]]''), along with a genus of flowering plants (''[[Sirdavidia]]'').<ref name="Couvreur2015">{{cite journal |vauthors=Couvreur TL, Niangadouma R, Sonké B, Sauquet H |title=Sirdavidia, an extraordinary new genus of Annonaceae from Gabon |journal=PhytoKeys |year=2015 |issue=46 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.46.8937 |pmid=25878546 |pmc=4391954 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015PhytK..46....1C }}</ref>

Several arthropods are named after Attenborough, including a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr (''[[Euptychia attenboroughi]]''),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20151202-rare-amazonian-butterfly-named-after-sir-david-attenborough |title=Rare Amazonian butterfly named after Sir David Attenborough |work=BBC Earth |date=3 December 2015 |access-date=6 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826050500/http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20151202-rare-amazonian-butterfly-named-after-sir-david-attenborough |archive-date=26 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail (''[[Acisoma attenboroughi]]''),<ref name="DA90">{{Cite episode |title=Attenborough at 90 |series=Attenborough at 90 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qxjzj |access-date=8 May 2016 |network=[[BBC Television]] |date=8 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425135009/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qxjzj |archive-date=25 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> a millimetre-long goblin spider (''[[Prethopalpus attenboroughi]]''), an ornate [[Caribbean]] smiley-faced spider (''[[Spintharus davidattenboroughi]]''),<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/182/4/758/4222834?redirectedFrom=fulltext |title=Agnarsson et al. 2018. A radiation of the ornate Caribbean 'smiley-faced spiders', with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae: Theridiidae, Spintharus) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |publisher=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 758–790 |date=26 September 2017 |volume=182 |issue=4 |pages=758–790 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx056 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224161948/https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/182/4/758/4222834?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live |last1=Agnarsson |first1=Ingi |last2=Van Patten |first2=Chloe |last3=Sargeant |first3=Lily |last4=Chomitz |first4=Ben |last5=Dziki |first5=Austin |last6=Binford |first6=Greta J. |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sci-news.com/biology/fifteen-new-species-smiley-faced-spiders-05260.html |title=Fifteen New Species of 'Smiley-Faced' Spiders Discovered |publisher=Sci News |date=27 September 2017 |access-date=27 September 2020 |archive-date=17 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117172915/http://www.sci-news.com/biology/fifteen-new-species-smiley-faced-spiders-05260.html |url-status=live}}</ref> an Indonesian flightless weevil (''[[Trigonopterus attenboroughi]]''),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/following-a-plant-and-a-spider-sir-david-attenborough-now-has-a-beetle-named-after-him-9941035.html |title=Following a plant and a spider, Sir David Attenborough now has a beetle named after him |last=Bawden |first=Tom |date=22 December 2014 |website=[[The Independent]] |access-date=30 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231035227/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/following-a-plant-and-a-spider-sir-david-attenborough-now-has-a-beetle-named-after-him-9941035.html |archive-date=31 December 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.ie/life/David-Attenborough-is-getting-a-beetle-named-after-him/325920.htm |title=David Attenborough is getting a beetle named after him |last=Collins |first=Adrian |date=23 December 2014 |website=[[entertainment.ie]] |access-date=30 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205093941/http://entertainment.ie/life/David-Attenborough-is-getting-a-beetle-named-after-him/325920.htm |archive-date=5 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> a Madagascan ghost shrimp (''[[Ctenocheloides attenboroughi]]'') and a soil snail (''[[Palaina attenboroughi]]'').<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Greķe |first=Kristīne |year=2017 |editor-last=Telnov |editor-first=Dmitry |title=Taxonomic review of Diplommatinidae (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) from Wallacea and the Papuan Region |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320921280 |journal=Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea |volume=3 |pages=151–316, pls 19–47 |access-date=13 January 2018 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905203637/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320921280_Taxonomic_review_of_Diplommatinidae_Caenogastropoda_Cyclophoroidea_from_Wallacea_and_the_Papuan_Region |url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Monogenea]]n ''[[Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi]]'', a [[fish parasite|parasite]] from a deep-sea fish in [[Lake Tanganyika]], may be the only parasitic species named after him.<ref name="KmentováGelnar2016">{{cite journal |last1=Kmentová |first1=Nikol |last2=Gelnar |first2=Milan |last3=Koblmüller |first3=Stephan |last4=Vanhove |first4=Maarten P. M. |title=Deep-water parasite diversity in Lake Tanganyika: description of two new monogenean species from benthopelagic cichlid fishes |journal=Parasites & Vectors |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=426 |year=2016 |issn=1756-3305 |doi=10.1186/s13071-016-1696-x |doi-access=free |pmid=27488497 |pmc=4972994}}</ref> Several vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including a Namibian lizard (''[[Platysaurus attenboroughi]]''),<ref name="Slate_14species" /> a bird (''[[Polioptila attenboroughi]]''),<ref name="Slate_14species" /> a Peruvian frog (''[[Pristimantis attenboroughi]]''),<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lehr |first1=Edgar |last2=von May |first2=Rudolf |title=A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Craugastoridae, ''Pristimantis'') from high elevations of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru |journal=ZooKeys |year=2017 |issue=660 |pages=17–42 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.660.11394 |pmid=28794672 |pmc=5549528 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2017ZooK..660...17L }}</ref> a Madagascan [[Stumpffia|stump-toed frog]] (''Stumpffia davidattenboroughi''),<ref name="Rakoto17">{{cite journal |last1=Rakotoarison |first1=A. |last2=Scherz |first2=M.D. |last3=Glaw |first3=F. |last4=Köhler |first4=J |last5=Andreone |first5=F. |last6=Franzen |first6=M. |last7=Glos |first7=J. |last8=Hawlitschek |first8=O. |last9=Jono |first9=T.|last10=Mori|first10=A. |last11=Ndriantsoa |first11=S.H. |last12=Raminosoa Rasoamampionona |first12=N. |last13=Riemann |first13=J.C. |last14=Rödel |first14=M.-O. |last15=Rosa |first15=G.M. |last16=Vieites |first16=D.R. |last17=Crottini |first17=A. |last18=Vences |first18=M. |title=Describing the smaller majority: Integrative fast-track taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus ''Stumpffia'') from Madagascar |journal=Vertebrate Zoology |year=2017 |volume=67 |issue=3 |pages=271–398|doi=10.3897/vz.67.e31595 |s2cid=257190990 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and one of only four species of echidna (''[[Zaglossus attenboroughi]]'').<ref name="InPics">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardin.com/environment/gallery/2014/jul/31/species-named-after-sir-david-attenborough-in-pictures |title=Species named after Sir David Attenborough – in pictures |date=31 July 2014 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=1 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805203411/https://www.theguardin.com/environment/gallery/2014/jul/31/species-named-after-sir-david-attenborough-in-pictures |archive-date=5 August 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:Sitana attenboroughii David Raju.jpg|thumb|''[[Sitana attenboroughii]]'']]
In 1993, after discovering that the [[Mesozoic]] reptile ''Plesiosaurus conybeari'' did not belong to the genus ''Plesiosaurus'', the palaeontologist [[Robert Bakker]] renamed the species ''[[Attenborosaurus]] conybeari''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/ples.html |title=Plesiosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide |publisher=Dinosauria.com |access-date=4 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001060613/http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/ples.html |archive-date=1 October 2009}}</ref> A fossilised armoured fish discovered in Western Australia in 2008 was named ''[[Materpiscis]] attenboroughi'', after Attenborough had filmed at the site and highlighted its scientific importance in ''Life on Earth''. The ''Materpiscis'' fossil is believed to be the earliest organism capable of internal fertilisation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080528-mother-fossil.html |title=Oldest Live-Birth Fossil Found; Fish Had Umbilical Cord |publisher=National Geographic News |date=28 May 2008 |access-date=29 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530065627/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080528-mother-fossil.html |archive-date=30 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 

In 2015, a species of tree from [[Gabon]] (in the [[Annonaceae]] family) ''[[Sirdavidia]]'' {{small|Couvreur & Sauquet}} was named with his title.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen | trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022 | format=pdf | language=German | location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 | access-date=27 January 2022 | archive-date=31 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831232306/https://www.bgbm.org/de/eine-enzyklopadie-zu-eponymischen-pflanzennamen | url-status=live }}</ref>

A miniature marsupial lion, ''[[Microleo attenboroughi]]'', was named in his honour in 2016.<ref name="Gough2016">{{cite news |last1=Gough |first1=Myles |title=Kitten-sized extinct 'lion' named after David Attenborough |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37182388 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=29 August 2016 |date=25 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829000904/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37182388 |archive-date=29 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GillespieEtAL2016">{{cite journal |last1=Gillespie |first1=Anna K. |last2=Archer |first2=Michael |last3=Hand |first3=Suzanne J. |title=A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |year=2016 |volume=19 |issue=2.26A |pages=1–26 |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/632.pdf |access-date=29 August 2016 |doi=10.26879/632 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911054640/http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/pdfs/632.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2016 |url-status=live |doi-access=free|bibcode=2016PalEl..19..632G }}</ref> The fossil grasshopper ''[[Electrotettix attenboroughi]]'' was named after Attenborough. In March 2017, a 430&nbsp;million year old tiny [[crustacean]] was named after him. Called ''[[Cascolus ravitis]]'', the first word is a [[Latin]] translation of the root meaning of "Attenborough" and the second is based on a description of him in Latin.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39348150 |title=Fossil named after Sir David Attenborough |work=BBC News |date=22 March 2017 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717085303/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39348150 |archive-date=17 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/03/whats-in-a-name-sir-david-attenborough-creatures/ |title=What's in a name? |website=Oxford Dictionaries |access-date=4 April 2017 |date=22 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404045459/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/03/whats-in-a-name-sir-david-attenborough-creatures/ |archive-date=4 April 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In July 2017, the Caribbean bat ''[[Myotis attenboroughi]]'' was named after him.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317381815 |title=Caribbean Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), with description of a new species from Trinidad and Tobago |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |volume=98 |issue=4 |pages=994–1008 |access-date=23 October 2018 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyx062 |year=2017 |last1=Moratelli |first1=Ricardo |last2=Wilson |first2=Don E. |last3=Novaes |first3=Roberto L. M. |last4=Helgen |first4=Kristofer M. |last5=Gutiérrez |first5=Eliécer E. |doi-access=free |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905203611/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317381815_Caribbean_Myotis_Chiroptera_Vespertilionidae_with_description_of_a_new_species_from_Trinidad_and_Tobago |url-status=live}}</ref> A new species of fan-throated lizard from coastal [[Kerala]] in [[India|southern India]] was named ''[[Sitana attenboroughii]]'' in his honour when it was described in 2018.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sadasivan |first1=Kalesh |last2=Ramesh |first2=M. B. |last3=Palot |first3=Muhamed Jafer |last4=Ambekar |first4=Mayuresh |last5=Mirza |first5=Zeeshan A. |title=A new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala, southern India |journal=Zootaxa |date=21 January 2018 |volume=4374 |issue=4 |pages=545–564 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4374.4.5 |pmid=29689791 |url=http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4374.4.5 |issn=1175-5334 |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122181628/http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4374.4.5 |archive-date=22 January 2018 |url-status=dead|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 2018, a new species of [[phytoplankton]], ''[[Syracosphaera azureaplaneta]]'', was named to honour ''The Blue Planet'', the TV documentary presented by Attenborough, and to recognise his contribution to promoting understanding of the oceanic environment.<ref>{{cite web |title=New ocean plankton species named after BBC's Blue Planet series |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/170418-Syracosphaera-azureaplaneta |publisher=University College London |access-date=17 April 2018 |date=17 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420044837/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0418/170418-Syracosphaera-azureaplaneta |archive-date=20 April 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The same year, Attenborough was also commemorated in the name of the scarab beetle ''[[Sylvicanthon attenboroughi]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vaz-de-Mello |first1=Fernando Z. |last2=Cupello |first2=Mario |title=A monographic revision of the Neotropical dung beetle genus ''Sylvicanthon'' Halffter & Martínez, 1977 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Deltochilini), including a reappraisal of the taxonomic history of 'Canthon sensu lato' |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |year=2018 |issue=467 |url=http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/598/1378 |issn=2118-9773 |access-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210111101/http://www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/598/1378 |archive-date=10 December 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 

In 2020, ''[[Nothobranchius attenboroughi]]'', a brightly coloured seasonal fish species was described in his honour. This species is endemic to Tanzania and it is known from ephemeral pools and marshes associated with the Grumeti River and other small systems draining into Lake Victoria at the east side of the lake, largely within the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The small seasonal fish inhabit ephemeral habitats in freshwater wetlands and have extreme life-history adaptations, having an annual life cycle, a key adaptation to reproduce in the seasonally arid savannah biome and allowing the eggs to survive the periodic drying up of the seasonal natural habitats.<ref name=Nagyetal2020>[[Béla Nagy (ichthyologist)|Nagy, B.]], Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020). Review of the ''Nothobranchius ugandensis'' species group from the inland plateau of eastern Africa with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae). ''Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters'', 30(1): 21–73. {{doi|10.23788/IEF-1129}} {{ResearchGatePub|340922876}}</ref>

In 2021 an extinct species of horseshoe crab was named ''[[Attenborolimulus| Attenborolimulus superspinosus]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bicknell |first1=Russell D. C. |last2=Shcherbakov |first2=Dmitry E. |date=30 June 2021 |title=New austrolimulid from Russia supports role of Early Triassic horseshoe crabs as opportunistic taxa |journal=PeerJ |volume=9 |pages=e11709 |doi=10.7717/peerj.11709 |pmid=34249518 |pmc=8254475 |issn=2167-8359 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bicknell |first=Russell Dean Christopher |date=30 June 2021 |title=We discovered a new fossil species of horseshoe crab (and named it after David Attenborough) |url=http://theconversation.com/we-discovered-a-new-fossil-species-of-horseshoe-crab-and-named-it-after-david-attenborough-163086 |url-status=live |access-date=29 October 2021 |website=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |archive-date=22 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822153232/https://theconversation.com/we-discovered-a-new-fossil-species-of-horseshoe-crab-and-named-it-after-david-attenborough-163086}}</ref> In July 2022, a fossil of a 560-million-year-old creature named ''[[Auroralumina attenboroughii]]'', which researchers believe to be the first animal predator, was named after Attenborough.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 July 2022 |title=Fossil of believed first animal predator named after David Attenborough |language=en-CA |work=The Globe and Mail |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-fossil-of-believed-first-animal-predator-named-after-david/ |access-date=25 July 2022 |archive-date=25 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725173133/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-fossil-of-believed-first-animal-predator-named-after-david/ |url-status=live }}</ref>