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Loud Shrimp Named After Pink Floyd

Although "Shrimp" wasn't the title of a song off Pink Floyd's career-best concept album Animals, "Pink Floyd" is now the name of a newly discovered species of pistol shrimp. The now christened synalpheus pinkfloydi is actually the second crustacean Sammy De Grave of the Oxford University Museum Of National History has named after a rock…

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20:37 on April 12 2017

Loud Shrimp Named After Pink Floyd

Stereogum — Although "Shrimp" wasn't the title of a song off Pink Floyd's career-best concept album Animals, "Pink Floyd" is now the name of a newly discovered species of pistol shri... more info

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