https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... 1473451753
Barack Obama's latest honor: a parasitic flatworm to bear his name
What to give the man who has everything, including a Nobel prize? The newly discovered species Baracktrema obamai is certainly ‘unusual and distinctive’
Having a newly discovered parasitic flatworm named after you may not be the world’s most illustrious honor, but it’s something Barack Obama nonetheless has the pleasure of adding to his presidential legacy.
Enter Baracktrema obamai, the flatworm that infects Malaysian freshwater turtles, a species and genus of parasite discovered by Dr Thomas R Platt, an expert on turtle parasites, who wanted to bestow the president with a gift of adding his namesake to the animal kingdom...