 Plants named after him include an alpine hawkweed ("Hieracium attenboroughianum") discovered in the Brecon Beacons, a species of Ecuadorian flowering tree ("Blakea attenboroughi"), one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants ("Nepenthes attenboroughii"), along with a genus of flowering plants ("Sirdavidia").Arthropods named after Attenborough include a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr ("Euptychia attenboroughi"), a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail ("Acisoma attenboroughi"), a millimetre-long goblin spider ("Prethopalpus attenboroughi"), an Indonesian flightless weevil ("Trigonopterus attenboroughi"), a Madagascan ghost shrimp ("Ctenocheloides attenboroughi"), and a soil snail ("Palaina attenboroughi").The Monogenean "Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi", a parasite from a deep-sea fish in the Lake Tanganyika, is probably the only parasite species named after him.