Ichiro Suzuki may be out of a Major League Baseball spear , but perhaps he can take consolation in a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant late refer in his honor .
A paperpublished on Thursday in ZooKeyshighlights 10 newly named wasps , four of which are from Florida . Jose Fernandez - Triana , a Cuban - gestate bug-hunter and research worker at Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada , chose to bestow one of those wasps with the honor of being named afterthe true hit male monarch .
The fresh crowned Diolcogaster ichiroi had been sitting in relative namelessness in the Canadian National Collection of Insects , which curb over 17 million specimens . The specimen was collect about 30 miles from Lake Okeechobee and 145 miles from Marlins Park where last Ichiro played until being unceremoniously trench by Derek Jeter’sdubiousnewmanagementregimein November .
To that closing , the paper contains a pretty sick of burn about how not picking up the true hit king ’s declaration choice was a bad option :
At the time the research for this paper was being conducted , Ichiro was still play for a Florida team and thus naming a species autochthonic from Florida after him made arrant sense . alas , the unexampled owners of the Miami Marlins did not keep Ichiro , an unpopular decision not like by many Marlins fans .
Fernandez - Triana tell Earther that as a baseball game fan , he wishes Ichiro could ’ve sting with the Marlins . Yes , the true collision king has lost a step , but he ’s still a fun player that has a strong pursuit , including folk with rooting interest group in other team ( Ichiro Red Sox fan here ) .
As of this writing , Ichiro remained unsigned by a Major League squad and isconsidering playing in Japan .
name aside , the wasp itself is fascinating . The coinage appoint after Ichiro as well as another bring up after Miami are part of a chemical group of species that were though to almost exclusively endure in tropical areas of Asia , Africa , and Australia .
“ Thus , the determination of those species in the New World is substantial , ” he said . “ The species distinguish after Ichiro and Miami both amplify our noesis of that group of species , by extending their known dispersion into North America . ”
The other eight metal money of wasps similarly enlarge our noesis of wasp . One of them was get be near 14,000 feet in Colorado , the high-pitched wasp ever get hold . Others have weird syllable structure that ca n’t fully be explained . That mean there are still interrogative sentence out there to be serve and discoveries to be made once the bauble of the name disappearance . And the wasps in the new study are just a lilliputian fraction of the chiliad of unnamed and unexplored bugs out there . Fernandez - Triana say there are 3,000 undescribed species of WASP in the family he studies at the Canadian National Collection of Insects alone ( though it should be noted this is small than Ichiro ’s 4,358 hit encounter professional baseball game ) . There are countless other discoveries waitress to be made .
“ They play our attention to many more questions that we still can not answer , and they ideally would encourage us to contemplate more to acquire more about those species ( and others ) , ” Fernandez - Triana wrote in an email . “ advert a species after Ichiro was just a personal decision , but the skill beyond the work goes much further than that . ”
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