How long until all species are named after David Attenborough?

A 430m-year-old fossilised shrimp from Herefordshire has become the latest species to be named after the broadcaster, joining the pygmy locust, semi-slug, rubber frog, Amazonian butterfly ...

When he was a boy, Sir David Attenborough supposedly had an impressive collection of fossils. These days, the 90-year-old naturalist and broadcaster could probably demand a corner of the Natural History Museum devoted solely to the fossils named after him.

As of this week, those include the Cascolus ravitis, a 430m-year-old fossilised shrimp from Herefordshire. ("Cascolus" is the Latin version of the Old English equivalent of "Attenborough".) "The biggest compliment that a biologist or palaeontologist can pay to another one is to name a fossil in his honour," Sir David told the BBC.