[Fictionary] Maqui(s) sighting

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On 2025-11-28 1:40 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium_zwierleini
> 
> I was browsing iNaturalist some days ago and came across an observation of a
> centipede identified as Plutoniumidae. So I looked up 1) why it has this odd
> combination of endings, and 2) what plutonium has to do with centipedes. The
> expected Plutoniidae would conflict with the snails or semislugs Plutoniinae,
> and the centipede Plutonium and the mollusk Plutonia were both named before
> the element was discovered. The centipedes are found in maquis, among other
> habitats.

Two thumbs up. And weird to think of things that were named before 
plutonium, but of course they were.

-- Eric