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Dear god, zoological taxonomers, what were you smoking? Histrionicus histrionicus is not a fandom drama-llama, it's a duck. Troglodytes troglodytes? Not a bunch of chthonic cave dwellers: yer common or garden variety wren. Puffinus puffinus is a manx shearwater, while ordinary puffins, charmingly, are of the genus fratercula, little brothers, "a reference to the black and white plumage, which resembles monastic robes."