10 Real Life Creatures Named For Fictional Characters

A spider that lives in caves in eastern Brazil was named for JRR Tolkien's fictional character Smeagol

A pterosaur genus named for Arthur Conan Doyle, who described a similar creature in one of his books

This 66 million-year-old dinosaur is called after a school of wizardry from JK Rowling's Harry Potter books

Han is a monotypic genus of agnostid trilobite, whose sole member is Han solo. Han Solo is from Star Wars

Soviet science fiction writer Ivan Efremov was also a paleontologist, which is how this dino got his name

Marine isopod A. yoda was named after a character of the Star Wars saga, Jedi Master Yoda

Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had two heads. This moth mimics it with a pattern

This Pleistocene era turtle was called for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This beetle is called for Darth Vader, the Star Wars villain. Others include A. bushi, A. cheneyi and more