List of taxa named after human genitals explained

This a list of species, genera, and other taxa named after human genitals.

Plants

Families

• Orchidaceae. The type genus is Orchis, whose name comes from the Ancient Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: [[:wikt:ὄρχις|ὄρχις]] (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some species of Orchis.^[1]

Genera

• Amorphophallus^[2]
• Clitoria^[3]
• Orchis

Species

• Alysicarpus vaginalis
• Baumea vaginalis
• Chenopodium vulvaria^[4]
• Festuca vaginalis
• Pontederia vaginalis

Varieties

• Capsicum annum annum var. annum 'penis pepper'

Fungi

Orders

• Phallales

Families

• Phallaceae

Genera

• Phallus^[5]

Species

• Amanita phalloides^[6]
• Amanita vaginata

Animals

Genera

• Phallichthys. The genus name literally means "phallus (penis) fish",^[7] from the Greek phallos meaning "penis" and ichthys meaning "fish",^[8] referring to the "comparatively huge" gonopodium, the modified anal fin used for copulation.^[7]

Species

• Xenophallus umbratilis

Subspecies

• Muntiacus muntjak vaginalis

General

• Pubescens. The word originates from the Latin pubes, "adult, full-grown";^[9] "genital area, groin"^[10] (e.g., Pubis); "the down or soft hair which begins to grow on young persons when they come to the age of puberty".^[11] The use of the term in biology to refer to hairiness or soft down is recorded since 1760 for plants and since 1826 for insects.
• Vaginalis. The common specific name is derived from the Latin vagina, originally meaning "sheath, scabbard, covering; sheath of an ear of grain, hull, husk."^[12] The specific epithet may refer to a sheathed trait or habit of an organism (e.g. Alysicarpus vaginalis), or may refer to resemblance/relation to the vagina (e.g. Gardnerella vaginalis)^[13]

Notes and References

1. Book: Hyam . R. . Pankhurst . R.J. . 1995 . Plants and their names : a concise dictionary . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-866189-4 . 356 . amp .
2. Book: Quattrocchi . Umberto . CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . 1999 . CRC Press . 9780849326738 . 118 . Quattrocchi.
3. 4034108. Nomenclatural Notes on the Genus Clitoria for the Flora North American Project. Castanea. 65. 2. 89–92. Fantz. Paul R.. 2000.
4. Book: Blackledge . Catherine . Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina . 2020 . Hachette UK . 9781474615846 . skirt.
5. Web site: Modern English Translation of Hadrianus Junius' 1564 work on Phallus hadrianii . A mycological voice from the past . Schaechter E, Wilson N . 2010-10-25 . https://archive.today/20130119224530/http://collectivesource.com/hadrianus/modern.html . 2013-01-19 . dead .
6. Book: Vaillant, Sébastien. 1727. Botanicon Parisiense. Leide & Amsterdam. J. H. Verbeek and B. Lakeman. 5146641. la.
7. Web site: Hellweg. Mike. Meet the Merry Widows: The Genus Phallichthys. Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine. 26 August 2023. 26 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230826212851/https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/freshwater/meet-the-merry-widows-the-genus-phallichthys-full-article. live.
8. Web site: Phallichthys amates (Miller, 1907). FishBase. 27 August 2023. 27 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230827153217/https://www.fishbase.se/summary/11961. live.
9. Web site: Harper . Douglas . pubescence (n.) . Online etymology dictionary . 29 August 2022 . pubescens-ety.
10. Web site: Harper . Douglas . pubis (n.) . Online etymology dictionary . 29 August 2022.
11. Book: Valpy . Francis Edward Jackson . An etymological dictionary of the Latin language . 1828 . Printed by A.J. Valpy, sold by Baldwin and Co . London . 377 . 29 August 2022 . valpy.
12. Web site: Harper . Douglas . vagina (n.) . Online etymology dictionary . 3 January 2023 . vaginalis-ety.
13. Book: Gmelin, Johann Friedrich . Johann Friedrich Gmelin. 1789 . Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 13th . 1, Part 2 . Latin . Lipsiae [Leipzig] . Georg. Emanuel. Beer . 705 .