A professor at Tongzhen College has found 16 new species of spiders in China and named them after songs by Taiwanese musician Jay Chou. Amongst them are the “starry-eyed spider” and the “rainbow spider”.

Impressed by the songs of the massively fashionable Taiwanese musician Jay Chou, a professor at Tongzhen College (southwestern China) has printed a listing of names of recent spiders.

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“Star-eyed spider”, ‘rainbow spider’..: Mi Xiaoqi, a professor at Tongren College in southwestern China's Guizhou province, listed the newly found arachnids in an article printed within the tutorial journal Zoological Analysis: Range and Conservation.

His put up went viral. The corresponding hashtag on the microblogging platform Weibo has obtained greater than 26 million views since Wednesday.

One of many arachnids – Cyclosa xingqing (or Starry Temper spider), 3.5 millimeters lengthy – is known as after the hit 2000 love music from the debut album “Jay” by Chow (Taiwanese musician, producer, actor, director, winner of greater than twenty worldwide music awards).

Others are named after the identical favourite tunes, together with “Rainbow spider”, “Dragon Fist spider” and “Excuse spider”.

The 45-year-old man has been a family title in mainland China and past for greater than twenty years.

Now his songs will likely be immortalized because the names of the eight-legged animals that Mi and his colleagues lately found in China's Yunnan province.

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