最强歌迷！16个新种蜘蛛都以周杰伦的歌命名……

A recent study on spiders has captured the attention of the internet as it named 16 new spider species after popular singer Jay Chou's songs.

Published in the scientific journal Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation, the study focused on taxonomy research conducted at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The paper introduces six new genera and 16 new species within the Araneidae family, with each of the 16 new species named after Jay Chou's songs.

taxonomy /tækˈsɒnəmi/ 分类学

genera /ˈdʒenərə/ [生物]属（genus的复数形式）

这16个新种名称分别是：

The paper was led by Professor Mi Xiaoqi from Tongren University in Guizhou province, with Li Shuqiang as the corresponding author.

Tongren University highlighted that this paper represents the most comprehensive taxonomic work in the last three decades, officially documenting the largest number of new taxonomic units of Araneidae spiders in China.

Araneidae /əˈreɪniˌaɪdiː/ 圆蛛科

This isn't the first instance of Jay Chou's influence reaching the scientific community. 

In 2020, Sun Zhixin, a postgraduate student at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, named a unique trilobite species dating back 500 million years as "Fantasia Bug," paying homage to the singer's second album. "Jay Chou's music has deeply influenced me. Naming it 'Fantasia' is a tribute to Jay Chou's imaginative and free-spirited musical style. I suppose it's a romantic gesture from a science enthusiast," said Sun.