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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame is one thing, but legendary songwriter Neil Young may have just been given a more enduring legacy.

According to Reuters, biologist has named a newly discovered trapdoor spider after the venerable musician. Jason Bond, who discovered the spider in Alabama, said he enjoys Young’s music and admires the rocker’s activism for peace and justice.
As cool as this is, “Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi” would be a lousy name for an album.
Young is not the first musician to be so honored. According to Reuters, the whirligig beetle — or Orectochilus orbisonorum — is named after the late rock legend Roy Orbison and his widow, Barbara.
Rock ‘n’ roll is the official musical genre of Town Talk Towers. We’ve been out in the yard all week looking for new critters — without regard to whether they were new species — that we can name after our favorite rock stars.

We couldn’t resist licking the back of the toad we found chilling out under a pine tree and boy, did it make us feel funny. But we saw an opporunity and we took it. The toad is now called “Hallucinogenickus hendrixi pinkfloydiola sergeantpepperoni jeffersonairplaniac jerrygarciappotamus.”

And because roaches would allegedly be the only living things left after a nuclear holocaust, we named the wrinkled, stumbling roach we found after our favorite indestructible Rolling Stones guitar player: “Creepycrawlyus keithrichardsacus”

But we’re also wondering why rock stars are relegated to insects? Why don’t they get higher species, like hawks or whales or Canadians? We don’t think Beethoven’s name would be used for an earthworm or that a earwig would be labeled “Yuckyius mozartus.”

Is science saying rock stars are the insects of the animal kingdom?
Well, rock musicians must fight back and start naming really bad records — y’know, like country music and emo albums — after famous zoologists and entomologists.
Uh .. can anyone think of any famous zoologists and entomologists.