{"id":7338,"date":"2016-07-05T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:56:00","slug":"insect-named-after-pink-floyd-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2016\/07\/insect-named-after-pink-floyd-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect named after Pink Floyd album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Pink Floyd&#8217;s 1969 album &#8220;Ummagumma&#8221; finds itself in an unusual place: a list of Top 10 New Insect Species for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry<\/strong> has put the Sparklewing damselfly on its list at #10.<\/p>\n<p>As a species of the genus &#8220;Umma,&#8221; it was easy enough for <strong>Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra<\/strong> to give it the species name of \u201cgumma,&#8221; honoring a friend&#8217;s request from 16 years ago: \u201cIf you ever discover a new species of the genus Umma,&#8221; the companion suggested, &#8220;call it Ummagumma like the Pink Floyd album!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2-inch-long Ummagumma is widespread on Central African rainforest streams, and, we assume, can also be found gathered together in caves grooving with picts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd&#8217;s 1969 album &#8220;Ummagumma&#8221; finds itself in an unusual place: a list of Top 10 New Insect Species for 2016. The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry has put the Sparklewing damselfly on its list at #10. As a species of the genus &#8220;Umma,&#8221; it was easy enough for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}