List of things named after Charles Darwin

Several places, concepts, institutions, and things are namesakes of the English biologist Charles Darwin:

Places

• Charles Darwin National Park
• Charles Darwin Foundation
• Charles Darwin Research Station
• Charles Darwin School
• Charles Darwin University
• Darwin College, Cambridge
• Darwin, Falkland Islands
• Darwin, Northern Territory
• Darwin Glacier (California)
• Darwin Guyot, a seamount in the Pacific Ocean
• Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands
• Darwin Island (Antarctica)
• Darwin Nature Reserve
• Darwin Sound (Canada)
• Darwin's Arch
• Mount Darwin (Antarctica)
• Mount Darwin (California)
• Mount Darwin (Tasmania)
• Mount Darwin (Zimbabwe)

Things named after Darwin in relation to his Beagle voyage

• Cordillera Darwin
• Darwin's finches
• Darwin's frog
• Darwin's rhea
• Darwin Sound
• Mount Darwin (Andes)

Scientific names of organisms

Some 250 species and several higher groups bear Darwin's name; most are insects. ^{[1] [2]}

• Darwinilus , a rove beetle
• Darwinius , an extinct primate
• Darwinopterus , a genus of pterosaur
• Darwinula , a genus of seed shrimp
• Darwinivelia , a water treader genus
• Darwinysius , a seed bug
• Darwinomya , a genus of flies
• Darwinella , a sponge genus
• Darwinsaurus , a dinosaur
• Darwinhydrus , a diving beetle
• darwini (multiple species)
• darwinii (multiple species)
• Minervarya charlesdarwini , a frog
• Ramalina darwiniana , lichen

Philosophies

• Darwinism
• Social Darwinism

Other

• Darwin, a unit of evolutionary change
• Darwin, an operating system
• Darwin (ESA) (a proposed satellite system)
• Darwin Awards
• Darwin Medal
• Darwin Prize
• Darwin fish
• Division of Darwin, a former electoral division in Australia
• 1991 Darwin, a stony Florian asteroid
• Darwin (lunar crater) a lunar crater
• Darwin (Martian crater) a martian crater
• Darwinia (plant), species named not after Charles Darwin but his grandfather Erasmus Darwin
• Darwin's tubercle, a congenital ear condition which often presents as a thickening on the helix

See also

• Commemoration of Charles Darwin
• Darwin (disambiguation)
• List of organisms named after famous people

References

1. Miličić, D.; Lučić, L.; Pavković-Lučić, S. (2011). "How Many Darwins? – List Of Animal Taxa Named After Charles Darwin" (PDF). Natura Montenegrina. 10 (4): 515–532. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-07-24.
2. Jozwiak, Piotr; Rewicz, Tomasz; Pabis, Krzysztof (2015). "Taxonomic etymology – in search of inspiration". ZooKeys (513): 143–160. Bibcode:2015ZooK..513..143J. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.513.9873 . PMC   4524282 . PMID   26257573.