As an icon of counterculture and underground rock the American rock musician and composer Frank Zappa has been featured and referenced in various different media.
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There are now hops named after Frank Zappa: Zappa Hops Guide: Yes, They’re Named After That Zappa
In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa after Zappa, stating that he liked "his music... his politics and principles" and that "the name itself is a good one for scientific nomenclature."[109]
Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish Phialella zappai[110] in order to get the chance to meet the musician. A Zappa concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero. A small portion of this concert was released on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore: Vol. 6 as "Lonesome Cowboy Nando".[111] Zappa stated, "There is nothing I'd like better than to have a jellyfish named after me."[112]
Other species named after Zappa include a fossil snail named Amaurotoma zappa and the Cameroonese spider Pachygnatha zappa, so named because a marking on the female's ventral surface resembles the Zappa mustache.[113] A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infection is named zapA (others are named zapB through zapE).[114]
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