The Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a new species discovered in the Florida Keys, was named after singer Jimmy Buffett. (University of Miami)
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Paul Sikkel, a University of Miami research professor, was fishing in the Florida Keys in 2015 when he made a decision.
Sikkel has listened to singer Jimmy Buffett for more than four decades, enjoying the songs Buffett produced when he lived in the Florida Keys in the 1970s. So Sikkel decided that if he discovered a species in the archipelago, he would name it after Buffett.
