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Berenbaum, May. 1993. "Apis, Apis, Bobapis. . .". American Entomologist 39(3):133-134.
- 1994. Oops Agassiz 1846 and other omissions. American Entomologist 40(1):9-10.

Bernhardt, Peter. 2008. Gods and Goddesses in the Garden, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Blunt, Wilfrid. 1971. The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus, New York: Viking.

Cole, Chris. 1990. Word records from Webster's Third. Word Ways 23(2):81-87.

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1985. International code of zoological nomenclature, 3rd ed., University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles.

Kidd, Stuart, 2004. Iouea: A creative coup. Word Ways 37(1): 44.

Lapage SP, Sneath PHA, Lessel EF, Skerman VBD, Seeliger HPR, and Clark WA. International code of nomenclature of bacteria (1990 Revision). American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., 1992.

Kukalová-Peck, Jarmilla & Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. 1983. New Homoiopteridae (Insecta: Paleodictyoptera) with wing articulation from Upper Carboniferous strata of Mazon Creek, Illinois. Canadian Journal of Zoology 61(7):1670-1687. [A discussion of the appropriateness of Rochlingia hitleri appears on pp. 1684-86.]

Long, Samuel S., 1996, Tautonyms in Biology, Word Ways 29(3): 146-150, 29(4): 253-257.

Lowe, Gary D., 2012. Endlicher's Sequence: The Naming of the Genus Sequoia. Fremontia 40(1,2), 25-35.

Lowe, Gary D., 2018. Debunking the Sequoia honoring Sequoyah Myth, Livermore, CA: Stanford Digital Library Edition.

McAtee, W. L., 1945, Nomina Abitera, privately printed.

Maclean, Ken, 2006, Humor of Gene Names Lost in Translation to Patients, Nature 438: 266.

Menke, Arnold. 1993. Funny or curious zoological names. B. O. G. U. S. [Biological and Other Generally Unsupported Statements] -2:24-27. (little known outside of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii)

Savory, Theodore Horace. Naming the Living World London: The English Universities Press Ltd., 1962.

Skerman VBD, Mcgowan V, and Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, Amended edition. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, 1989.

Thorpe, Susan. 1993. AEIOU words in biology. Word Ways 26(4):195-199, 27(1):13-19.

Trüper, H. G. 1999. How to name a prokaryote? Etymological considerations, proposals, and practical advice in prokaryote nomenclature. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 23: 231-249.

Zoological Society of London. Nomenclator Zoologicus,
Neave, Sheffield Airey. 1939-1940. vols. I-IV (1785-1935).
Neave, Sheffield Airey. 1950. vol. V (1936-1945).
Edwards, Marcia A. & A. Tindell Hopwood. 1966. vol. VI (1946-1955).
Edwards, Marcia A. & A. Tindell Hopwood. 1975, vol.VII (1956-1965).
Edwards, Marcia A. & Mary A. Tobias. 1993, vol. VIII (1966-1977).

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