Binomial nomenclature

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Binomial nomenclature; also known as binomial designation, (AUDIO: The Lovecraft Invasion) scientific name, (PROSE: Cold Fusion) or Latin name; (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology) was a system of naming organisms with a formal name of two terms: genus and species. (PROSE: The Menagerie) Subspecies were given a third term. (PROSE: The Pirate Loop)

Earth species

Animals

The I-Spyder Book of Earth Creatures included the binomial nomenclature for each listed animal species. (PROSE: The Last Dodo)

Mammals

• Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Black rat (Rattus rattus) (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire, Antidote to Oblivion)
• Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire, Times Squared)
• Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Ark in Space)
• Cat (Felis silvestra catus or Felis catus) (PROSE: Outstanding Balance, Resurrection of the Daleks)
• Dog (Canis familiaris) (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
• Eastern black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) (PROSE: Artificial Intelligence)
• Homo erectus (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars, Sometime Never...)
• Homo habilis (PROSE: Genocide, The Taking of Planet 5, AUDIO: Interstitial)
• Homo naledi (PROSE: Interlude from a Civil War)
• Human (Homo sapiens sapiens) (PROSE: The Pirate Loop)
• Ilin Island cloudrunner (Crateromys paulus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Lion (Felis leo) (PROSE: The Romans)
• Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalis) (PROSE: Predating the Predators)
• Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) (AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan)
• Quagga (Equus quagga quagga) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon fatalis) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Sumatran bamboo rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis) (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
• Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Tiger (Panthera tigris) (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers)
• Western European badger (Meles meles meles) (PROSE: The Pirate Loop)
• Wolf (Canis lupus) (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
  • Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger)

There were three species of Tibetan Yeti, the Mih-teh, Dzu-teh, and Yeh-teh. The Yeh-teh were formally identified by Edward Travers and were classified as Yeti Traversii. (PROSE: Downtime)

By 35 million AD, the common mouse evolved into Mus musculus sapiens, the smartest creature on the planet. (PROSE: Omegamorphosis)

Variations of humanity

Josiah Samuel Smith classified some humans as Homo Victorianus Ineptus. (TV: Ghost Light)

The Homo peculiar were an advanced mutation of Homo sapiens that began emerging through telepathic youth in the 20th century. (PROSE: Peculiar Lives)

Steve and Val Ross taught that the destiny of the human race was to mate with alien species and become the Homo stellar. (AUDIO: Believe)

The Homo superior were a group of children on Earth that did missions for the Galactic Federation. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)

The Manfolk (Homo virilis) were a genetically altered species of human warriors. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)

The Homo solarians were a posthuman species who lived inside the Sun after it destroyed Earth. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)

The Human Species: A Spotter's Guide by Melicia Clutterbuck included information about the Ettin (Homo phobovore) and the Abarimon (Homo abarimoniensis). (PROSE: Highbury)

Reptiles

• Ankylosaurus (Ankylosaurus magniventris) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Chinese three-striped box turtle (Cuora trifasciata) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Diplodocus (Diplodocus longus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Dromaeosaurus (Dromaeosaurus albertensis) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Iguanodon (Iguanodon bernissartensis) (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors)
• Pterodactylus antiquus (PROSE: Something Borrowed)
• Megalosaurus (Megalosaurus buckland) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Tyrannosaurus rex (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs, et al.)

The Silurians and their "underwater cousins" the Sea Devil were known as Homo reptilia. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters, Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils, TV: The Hungry Earth) Both groups of Earth Reptiles were also known as Homo Reptilicus. (PROSE: First Frontier) Alternatively, Petronella Osgood referred to both Silurians and Sea Devils as Reptilia sapiens. (AUDIO: Tidal Wave)

Birds

• Dodo (Raphus cucullatus or Didus ineptus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo, Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
• Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Paradise parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
• Phorusrhacos (Phorusrhacos longissimus) (PROSE: The Last Dodo)

Invertebrates

• Amphioctopus marginatus (PROSE: The Drosten's Curse)
• Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) (PROSE: Lucy Wilson & the Bledoe Cadets)
• Common wasp (Vespidae vulgaris) (PROSE: Eater of Wasps)
• Jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) (TV: End of the Road)
• Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology)
• Octopus rubescens (PROSE: The Death Pit)
• Red-spot night octopus (Octopus dierythraeus) (PROSE: The Death Pit)
• Trochulus hispidus (PROSE: The Stone House)

Plants

At the gardens on the Scientifica colony, Adric saw each plant had a nameplate that included their common and scientific names. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

• Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis) (PROSE: The Art of Destruction)
• Amyris elemifera (PROSE: Another Life)
• Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) (TV: The Sensorites)
• Fragaria vesca (PROSE: Scary Monsters)
• Hepatica nobilis (PROSE: Scary Monsters)
• Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13)
• Oak (Quercus robur) (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13)
• Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13)
• Sanicula europaea (TV: Castrovalva)
• Tea (Camellia sinesis) (AUDIO: A Small Semblance of Home)
• Valeriana officinalis (TV: Castrovalva, The Mark of the Rani)
• Umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla) (PROSE: The Dragon of Hyacinth Lodge)
• Willow (Salix fragilis) (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13)
• Wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus) (PROSE: Wolfsbane)

Fungi

• Psilocybe mexicana (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

Microorganisms

• Bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis) (COMIC: Black Death White Life, Antidote to Oblivion)
  • Recombinant yersinia pestis (COMIC: A Fairytale Life)
• E. coli (PROSE: Deadfall)
• Gymnodinium Veneficum (PROSE: Crimson Dawn)
• Raoultella planticola (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World)

Gallifreyan species

The I-Spyder Book of Earth Creatures gave Time Lords the binomial nomenclature of Dominus temporis. (PROSE: The Last Dodo)

Madevinia aridosa was the name of a Gallifreyan flower. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

Rassilonian Timeflys were also known as Temporanius clepcydras. (COMIC: The Judas Goatee)

Other species

Remakes (Homo refactus) were a human species invented in the City of the Saved. They majority of Remakes were fictional characters created in remembrance tanks. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)

Originally a hoax fossil created by the First Doctor, (AUDIO: The Suffering) Tim Connolly used Remembrance tanks to turn the Piltdown Man (Homo piltdownensis) into a real species. (PROSE: The Adventure of the Piltdown Prelate)

Vortisaurs were also known as Pterosauria vortexfera. (AUDIO: Storm Warning ^[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"])

The Mecrim (Singropoda mecrimus) were a genetically engineered species used as weapons in the Human-Draconian War. (PROSE: The Menagerie)

The Dreamweaver was also known as Somnifax vehementi. (AUDIO: The Lovecraft Invasion)

The weed planet of Necros was known as Herbabaculum vitae, which was Latin for "staff of life". (TV: Revelation of the Daleks, PROSE: Revelation of the Daleks)

Rusty looked like a giant squirrel and was given the "long Sci-latin name" of Para sciurus vulgaris. (PROSE: Shadowmind)

A stuffed Venusaurus erectus of Venus was an exibit at Mildeo Twisknadine's Museum of Things That Don't Exist. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)

Faries were also known as Homo fata vulgaris. (PROSE: The Shining Man)

Blowfish were also known as Homoformatus piscis. (PROSE: The Baby Farmers)

An aspect of the Enemy was called Thaumoctopus memeticus. (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology)

Pinguis were also known as Pinguicorpus homo. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination ^[+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

• The fossil bivalve species Cyclocardia dalek was named after the Daleks.
• The fossil snail species Mestoronema bipatellare was named after Mestor.
• The parasitoid wasp species Choeras zygon was named after the Zygons.
• The trilobite species Gravicalymene bakeri was named after Tom Baker.
• The fossil brittle star species Ophiotardis tennanti was named after the TARDIS and David Tennant.