> The animal belongs to the genus Eriovixia. It was discovered in 2015 in the Indian state of Karnataka by Javed Ahmed, Rajashree Khalap, and Sumukha Javagal. The discoverers of this new spider thought it resembled the Sorting Hat of the Harry Potter series, so they named it after Godric Gryffindor, the original owner of the Sorting Hat. [1]
> Meet Eriovixia gryffindori, a new species of spider described by me and my fellow researchers, from the Western Ghats of India, a global biodiversity hot-spot, and named after the magical sorting hat from J. K. Rowling's fabulous series of 'Harry Potter' books & films!
echelon•6mo ago
> The animal belongs to the genus Eriovixia. It was discovered in 2015 in the Indian state of Karnataka by Javed Ahmed, Rajashree Khalap, and Sumukha Javagal. The discoverers of this new spider thought it resembled the Sorting Hat of the Harry Potter series, so they named it after Godric Gryffindor, the original owner of the Sorting Hat. [1]
> Meet Eriovixia gryffindori, a new species of spider described by me and my fellow researchers, from the Western Ghats of India, a global biodiversity hot-spot, and named after the magical sorting hat from J. K. Rowling's fabulous series of 'Harry Potter' books & films!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriovixia_gryffindori
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/comments/5hmo01/meet_eriovi...