 Later given the honour of naming the newly discovered species, he named it Irwin's turtle ("Elseya irwini") after his family.Another newly discovered Australian animal – a species of air-breathing land snail, "Crikey steveirwini", was named after Irwin in 2009.Irwin was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government in 2001 for his "service to global conservation and to Australian tourism".