Alviniconcha strummeri live beneath the surface of the ocean and apparently ‘look like punk rockers in the 70s and 80s’A species of deep sea snail with the bold,spiky aesthetic of early Clash fans has been named after Joe Strummer. Alviniconcha strummeri are golf ball-sized invertebrates that live around 2000 metres beneath the surface of the ocean.
The Strummer-indebted snails are one of five unusual species identified in a paper that was published in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity. “Because they look like punk rockers in the 70s and 80s and enjoy purple blood and live in such an extreme environment, we decided to name one unusual species after a punk rock icon, or ” Shannon Johnson,a researcher at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel (via Exclaim).
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Source: theguardian.com