Can someone create a new species of cockroach and then just sell it on Ebay? Surely there should be concern about it escaping into the wild and there must be some sort of regulations concerning this.
Can someone sell “entire rights for this new species”?
I should add that this is not my sale and I have no financial interest in this.
It’s bullshit. Those look like regular American cockroaches with a mutation that deforms their wings (or maybe they have a vitamin deficiency or some other developmental problem). I don’t believe anyone who can’t spell cockroach right (and doesn’t know how to capitalize) has been able to create a new species.
Of course you don’t “register” a new species, you describe it in a scientific paper. And if you publish a name like “Alvinicus americana” before publishing the formal species description, you invalidate the name forever. In any case, if this was a new form of American Cockroach the first part of the name would be the same, Periplaneta. These guys don’t even know how to compose species names.
Some countries, including the US, do allow patenting of animal types that have been created in the lab, and do not occur in nature. If you did create a new transgenic roach, you might be able to patent it. But it’s obvious these guys, whoever they are, are a couple of stoners who somehow got a hold of a box of funny looking roaches. I dunno, maybe they fed them meth.
According to the rules of scientific nomenclature, a species name published without a formal description becomes a nomen nudum (“naked name”), and becomes unavailable to use with that species or with any other. I don’t know if putting a name on eBay constitutes publication, but if they have published it in a newspaper it may be invalid. No scientist will ever publish a proposed name before the species description comes out for that reason.
That’s right. We won’t take this lying down, either.
Too often we get treated like what’s that thing you
shouldnt treat people like, you know, that thing.
Anyway, I’m getting a bunch of friends together
and if it doesn’t rain later today maybe we’ll meet
up at the park. If it rains maybe we’ll go see a
movie. Anyone know if there are any good 3D
movies playing, or that thing where the screen is
really, really huge, what’s that called? Nothing
with Antman, though cause ugh. Maybe we can
each carry in a 40, but it’s going to be 88 degrees
do you think we’ll look weird if we wear coats
so we can hide the 40s
They say that cockroaches are used in China for “drug-making and food.” However, they say they are not selling them for food. So one presumes they are selling them as drugs.
Sounds like they are so stoned they’re confused about what kind of roaches you’re supposed to eat.
