The other day I received an inquiry from Stephen Heard <sheard@unb.ca>. Stephen is an evolutionary ecologist, and he wondered whether anyone has ever used Klingon to do a species' formal "Latin" name. I thought it was an intriguing question, and I confess to being unaware of any intersection between the set of Klingon speakers and the set of folks who get to name newly discovered species. But then I thought, maybe someone on the list might know better.

Here's the link to a blog post Stephen made on the subject: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/are-there-any-klingon-latin-names/

If you have something to contribute to this idea, feel free to either respond directly to Stephen at the email address provided above and/or continue the discussion here on this thread.