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by mrtransient 844 days ago
Elbakyan has several biological species named in her honor:

- Idiogramma elbakyanae, a species of parasitoid wasps discovered by Russian and Mexican entomologists in 2017.

- Brachyplatystoma elbakyani [es], an extinct species of catfish discovered by Argentine paleontologists in 2020.

- Amphisbaena elbakyanae, a species of worm lizard discovered in 2021.[58]

- Sibogasyrinx elbakyanae [c; d], a species of deep-sea snail discovered by researchers from Russia and France in 2021

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan#Recogniti...

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Those are obviously named after a person, not unexpectedly.