Science curiosities: How these names are chosen?

Sometimes archaeologists, biologists, astronomers and researchers use their findings to satisfy their caprices or fads. For example, a zoologist after discovering a small parasite which make their nests  in the gills of fishes decided to call them Carolina, in honour of his mother in law. Also, the naturalist Linnaeus chose the name of an athlete, Siegesbeck, to name a weed which he called Siegesbeckia shamelessly.

Jean-François Bouvet tells the story of a romantic love with an English palaeontologist named Ella. Bouvet called ellaquismus to a trilobite which he had discovered. The word  sounds like “Ella kiss me”.

 Another place full of references and tributes is the sky. Stars, asteroids and minor planets have been named like artists of rock (Zappa); comic characters (Castafiore, from Tintin) and historical characters (Cleopatra). The actor Harrison Ford also had his moment of glory, but instead of naming a star, his name was used to define a type of spider, the Calponea harrisonfordi.

This an adaptation of this article: http://www.muyinteresante.es/cultura/arte-cultura/articulo/el-lenguaje-cientifico