Bazinga

See also: bazinga

Translingual

Bazinga rieki, type species of the genus

Etymology

Identified in 2013 by Lisa-Ann Gershwin and Peter Davie, who based the name on bazinga, a catchphrase from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory used to indicate a trick or prank, because they presume the species Bazinga rieki had been mistaken for juveniles of other species. Bazinga is also the name of a seven-stringed harp that Gershwin and Davie suggest resembles the radial canals of the jellyfish.

Proper noun

Bazinga ?

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bazingidae – a small jellyfish native to Australia.

References

• Gershwin, L. and P.J.F. Davie (2013) “A remarkable new jellyfish (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from coastal Australia, representing a new suborder within the Rhizostomeae”, in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, page 625