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I've created a new Chimera of my very own! And I think it's adorable (if I say so myself) and I want to put it on a bunch of Zazzle products. But before I can sell anything with it, Zazzle wants me to name it. And that's where I'm stumped.

The name I've given it in my own files is "tetra-butterfly," But that only really works for me, and I may want to create another four-beast chimera with butterfly wings sometime in the future. So: Help?

tetra-butterfly
Caption/visual description: detailed line drawing in black ink of a monster with the hind body of a frog, the forelegs of a raptor, the head and tail of a rabbit, and the wings and antennae of a butterfly. The monster is "perched," and looking back at the viewer.

And here's the "action shot":
tetra-butterfly flying 3
Caption/visual description: Same creature, also drawn in black pen, in flight, veiwed from above. The forelegs are hidden, and the hind legs are stretched out behind.

Should I combine (or string together) the Latin names from taxonomy classes (Lepidopteran Lepus Rana Aves)? Or do the same with English (Butterfly Bunny Froggy Bird)? Or do something Seussian, and make up a nonsense name? Should I just give it a "Christian" (air quotes) name, like Harold, or Mary-Lou?

Halp?

Date: 2011-05-06 08:47 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Sheep wearing an eyepatch (spiralsheep Ram Raider mpfc)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
The first thing that springs to mind is bunnyfly, but I'm sure we can do better. AKICIF!

Date: 2011-05-06 08:58 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Sheep wearing an eyepatch (spiralsheep Ram Raider mpfc)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
Although I want to name all your "monsters": petculiars. Unfamiliars? ;-)

Date: 2011-05-06 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] keeva
amg it's so cute! i want one!

although it looks like it has bunny back legs in the lower shot and froggy back legs in the top shot.

Date: 2011-05-06 10:53 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: barcode version of jesse_the_k (JK OpenID barcode)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Adorable.

I think some human-typical name would be good. Mr Nabokov was giddy about butterflies; Ms Potter's heart went thump for bunnies so that could yield a Beavlad or a Nabotrix.

Date: 2011-05-07 07:37 am (UTC)
pebblerocker: A worried orange dragon, holding an umbrella, gazes at the sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] pebblerocker
Lepilepus Ranaves, the Amphibious Bunnyfly!

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