More than 8,000 name suggestions for the newly discovered chiton were submitted through social media during a public naming campaign.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed publication (Biodiversity Data Journal) and multiple press outlets, though most coverage traces back to a single official press release from SOSA/Pensoft.
Sources
- This weird deep-sea creature was named by thousands of people online | ScienceDaily (sciencedaily.com)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12905592/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/06/the-internet-names-a-new-deep-sea-species-senckenberg-researchers-select-a-scientific-name-from-over-8000-suggestions/ (blog.pensoft.net)
- https://www.discovermagazine.com/8-000-suggestions-later-a-newly-discovered-deep-sea-species-gets-its-name-48657 (discovermagazine.com)
- https://a-z-animals.com/articles/this-iron-toothed-sea-creature-found-18000-feet-down-has-a-crowdsourced-name/ (a-z-animals.com)