A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular Mandopop musician Jay Chou. The newly discovered arachnids are named after beloved tunes, including 'Starry Mood', 'Rainbow', 'Dragon Fist', and 'Excuse'.
A Chinese scientist has named 16 new spider species after songs by popular Mandopop musician Jay Chou . Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren University in China's southwestern Guizhou province, listed the newly discovered arachnids in a paper published in the academic journal Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation.
The paper, published in December, has gone viral since being discovered by netizens this year, with a related hashtag on microblogging platform Weibo racking up over 26 million views since Wednesday (Jan 1).One of the arachnids - the 3.5mm long Cyclosa xingqing sp. nov. or'Starry Mood spider' - is named after a hit love song from Chou's debut album Jay released in 2000. Others are named after similarly beloved tunes, including Rainbow spider, Dragon Fist spider, and Excuse spider. Taiwan-born Chou, renowned for his dramatic romance ballads and pop beats, is one of the world's most popular Mandarin-language artists having sold over 30 million records.Now his songs will be immortalised as the names of the eight-legged critters that Mi and his colleagues recently discovered in China's Yunnan province. The Secret Code spider, a 2.36mm yellowish brown web-weaving arachnid, is named after Chou's 2002 love song featured on his acclaimed album The Eight Dimensions. It's unclear how the song, in which Chou croons'Don't ever leave, you are missing the missing piece in my world,' relates to the spider. Excuse spider, a fuzzy brown and white critter, shares its name with a track from Chou's 2004 album Common Jasmine Orange, the best-selling physical album in China this century according to Guinness World Records. Mi, who published the paper with fellow researchers Wang Cheng and Li Shuqiang, has been a Jay Chou fan since his undergraduate days, according to state media outlet Xinhua. 'Naming spiders after Jay Chou's songs brings scientific research closer to the publi
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