A zoologist has given a new species of pistol shrimp the name of his favourite rock band, because it is able to produce a sound that is louder than stadium concerts.
Dr Sammy de Grave, from Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History, was researching a pistol shrimp with a distinctive pink snapping claw that it uses to stun its prey with a sonic blast, and decided to name it Synalpheus pinkfloydi, after his favourite band, Pink Floyd.
