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They named it Eriovixi gryffindori, for the fictional owner of the Sorting Hat, a talking (sometimes singing) and unnervingly insightful hat which assigns young wizarding students to their school Houses. Two other Aname species are named for Harvey’s mother Mara and her younger sister Ellen.Īnother spider joined the Potterverse in 2016, when arachnologist Javed Ahmed and his colleagues discovered an oddly-shaped spider in western India. She was just 15 when she completed the four-month-long project – she was a Grade 9 student in Australia, which is apparently the equivalent of a Hogwarts 5 th-year student. Harry was just 12 in that book, and Frances Harvey was only a few years older when she did the genetic analysis to identify the new species.
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In fact, the pit viper is the second new species the expedition has reported so far, and northeast India still holds a wealth of undocumented biodiversity – and according to Mirza, describing it is becoming urgent. The mountains are home to large species like giant pandas and wild water buffalo, but also smaller, easier-to-miss creatures like T. salazar on a recent expedition in Arunachal Pradesh, India’s northeastern-most state, where the Himalayas have created and sheltered a hotspot of biodiversity. Naturalist Zeeshan Mirza and his colleagues discovered T. Researchers have to resort to genetic studies in the lab, because unfortunately no one has invented a snake-sized Sorting Hat yet. It’s hard to say for sure how many snake species belong to Trimeresurus, because many of them look so much alike that it’s hard to tell them apart in the field. Salazar’s pit viper is the newest addition to the genus Trimeresurus, which includes at least 48 species of pit viper (named for the sensory pits on the sides of their heads, not for any tendency to lurk in the Chamber of Secrets deep beneath wizard schools) in east and southeast Asia.