MIAMI: US scientists have discovered a new species of a parasitic flatworm that infects turtles in Malaysia, and named it after Barack Obama as a way of honoring the US president.
The flatworm, coined Baracktrema obamai, is so unusual that it merits not only a new species designation, but its own genus, too.
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