We all know Greedo the Rhodian: The bounty hunter with questionable morals who works for an even more questionable boss. Well, it turns out he has a long lost cousin... On Earth!
Greedo? Meet your cousin......um....Greedo.
Actually, his full name is Peckoltia Greedoi. It's a species of catfish that has scaly armor, dark eyes, and facial bristles, that was discovered along a river in Brazil back in 1998. However it wasn't named until recently when Jonathan Armbruster, the curator of fishes at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History was examining a specimen collected back in 2005.
How did this happen you say?
Well, while Jonathan was examining the little critter, Chris Hamilton, one of his colleagues from the department of biological sciences took one look a the specimen and said "That looks like that guy from 'Star Wars'". That was all it took to make the name stick.
Greedo now joins the "elite" club of species named after famous characters and celebrities, including an acorn worm named after Yoda for having lips on the side of it's head that reminded the researchers of Yoda's ears, a horsefly named after Beyonce for it's gold colored rear end, and a 505 million year old extinct arthropod named after Johnny Depp because it's pincers reminded them of Edward Scissorhands.
Read the entire article on Mother Nature Network.
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