As an icon of counterculture and underground rock the American rock musician and composer Frank Zappa has been featured and referenced in various different media.
In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa after Zappa, stating that he liked "his music... his politics and principles" and that "the name itself is a good one for scientific nomenclature." [109]
Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish Phialella zappai [110] in order to get the chance to meet the musician. A Zappa concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero. A small portion of this concert was released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore: Vol. 6 as "Lonesome Cowboy Nando". [111] Zappa stated, "There is nothing I'd like better than to have a jellyfish named after me." [112]
Other species named after Zappa include a fossil snail named Amaurotoma zappa and the Cameroonese spider Pachygnatha zappa , so named because a marking on the female's ventral surface resembles the Zappa mustache. [113] A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infection is named zapA (others are named zapB through zapE). [114]
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