Get Slimed: Put Your Name on a Sea Slug

Several spiders are named for Orson Welles movies, while another spider has the cinematic name of Apopyllus now.

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At Scripps Institution, naming rights to three worms have sold so far, one for $10,000 and two for $5,000. The buyers include a high school teacher, a local branch of a telephone manufacturer, and a woman who bought the name as an anniversary gift for her husband.

A total of $20,000 in donations may not seem like much. But Bailey isn't discouraged.

"Considering that we're naming lowly invertebrates," he says, "I think we've done OK."