Via Starwars.com:

As the characters and creatures in Star Wars have often been inspired by the wildlife of our own planet, so have scientists around the world been inspired by Star Wars. While often new species that are discovered are named after their finders, their location or their morphological characteristics, it is not uncommon for scientists to name newly discovered species after famous individuals or fictional characters. Here’s a list of 10 species names inspired by that galaxy far, far away!

1. Peckoltia greedoi
Peckoltia greedoi is a species of armored catfish that lives in the Gurupí River of Brazil. It was discovered in 1998, and is characterized by dark, bulging eyes and a sucker mouth, not unlike the Rodian bounty hunter Greedo. When Jonathan Armbruster and his colleagues at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History were examining a specimen collected in 2005, one of his coworkers, Chris Hamilton, mentioned that the fish looked “like that guy from Star Wars”. When Armbruster found out that he had been talking about Greedo, they knew what the species name would be.

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