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Generaly its the person who discovers the new species that gets to name it. Often they will choose a name that sums up the biological characteristics of the species, in order to make it sound as logical as possible. If the Biology is'nt really understood then they could call it what ever they like in really. Kind of like when astronemers find a new star and name it after someone.

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