Reggae legend Bob Marley has something in common with Barack Obama and Elvis Presley now: All three men are have biological species named after them. "In Marley's case, it's a small parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests fish in Caribbean coral reefs, now known as Gnathia marleyi." Were he alive today, we have to imagine his reply: "Um, thanks?"

  • http://www.twitter.com/eselqueso eselqueso

    if it’s not red, yellow, green and black, what’s the point? maybe it’s smokeable?

  • robuluz

    “In Marley’s case, it’s a small parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests fish in Caribbean coral reefs”

    Lee Scratch Perry will love that.

  • sean

    It should have been named after some record company executive instead. Maybe the douche that discovered Mariah Carey.

  • chgoliz

    I swear I read “Gnarly marleyi” at first.  Which is a weird juxtaposition, but kinda works.

  • dioptase

    I think Bob would dispute accounts of his death:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Paradise

  • GawainLavers

    Still unclear on why ASU has a Marine Biology program, but at least it’s in the news for something other than masturbating Presidents…

  • ehdubkay

    “…the babylon system is a vampire…sucking the blood of the sufferer…”

  • http://www.jeremiahblatz.com/ Jeremiah Blatz

    Huh, aren’t Rastafarians supposed to be vegetarian?