 Frank Zappa in popular culture

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.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."