“Aura” is apparently derived from the Latin for “golden” (possibly because it was thought to have a yellow head), so it is the “golden purifier.”
Livyatan Melvillei – Melville’s Leviathan – was an apex predator carnivorous whale that competed with Megalodon. It was a little larger than your typical sperm whale. So, although sperm whales don’t behave like Moby Dick, Livyatan did.
But that’s made for head-banging!
And Gollumjapyx smeagoli, a white cave-dwelling arthropod.
The common badger, the dominant subspecies of the European badger, has the trinomial name Meles meles meles, which is just Latin for “badger badger badger”. As far as I can tell, however, there is no such species as a “Boletus boletus”. Some of y’all will probably be quite relieved to know that last bit.
That reminds me of the binomial name Balaenoptera musculus. Balaenoptera means “fin whale” (literally “winged whale”); musculus could be taken to mean “muscle”, but it does also mean “little mouse”. So, the blue whale–possibly the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth–has a scientific name that means “little mouse whale”.
Genus Qijianglong is worth a mention, here, because “Dragon of Qijiang” is pretty badass, and it also bucks convention by being the only binomial I know of that doesn’t even pretend to be Greek or Latin (because who needs upstart European cultures, when you’re China). But it undoubtedly loses points for the only known species, Q. guokr, translating to “nutshell”.
The common stinkhorn is Phallus impudicus, which translates to “shameless penis”. It’s shaped exactly as you would expect.