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Animals named after people

Name an animal named after a person. Hopdown accepts 551 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. Animals whose common names honor a person, such as Humboldt penguin, Cooper's hawk or Thomson's gazelle.

Most common answers

• Humboldt PenguinExtremely common
• Cooper's HawkExtremely common
• Przewalski's HorseExtremely common
• Thomson's GazelleExtremely common
• Steller's Sea LionExtremely common
• Steller's JayExtremely common
• Steller's Sea CowCommon
• Steller's Sea EagleCommon
• Steller's EiderUncommon
• Meller's ChameleonUncommon
• Parson's ChameleonUncommon
• Oustalet's ChameleonUncommon
• Labord's ChameleonUncommon
• Darwin's FrogUncommon
• Adelie PenguinUncommon

Rare answers

• Forsten's TortoiseRare
• Princess Stephanie's AstrapiaRare
• Townsend's WarblerRare
• Forster's TernRare
• Rothschild's GiraffeRare
• Plott HoundRare
• Dumeril's BoaRare
• Springer's DottybackVery rare
• Nomura's JellyfishVery rare
• Randall's ShrimpgobyVery rare
• Deraniyagala's Beaked WhaleVery rare
• Randall's AnthiasVery rare
• Rolland's DemoiselleVery rare
• Vaux's SwiftVery rare
• Swindern's LovebirdVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• Rajah Brooke's BirdwingDeep cut
• Ord's Kangaroo RatDeep cut
• Sclater's GuenonDeep cut
• Boehm's ZebraDeep cut
• Blanford's FoxDeep cut
• Port Jackson SharkDeep cut
• Peringuey's AdderDeep cut
• Cope's Gray TreefrogDeep cut
• Walker CoonhoundDeep cut
• Livingstone's FlycatcherDeep cut

Plus 511 more answers you'll have to find yourself.