it's Watersipora subtorquata and for some reason my brain absolutely refuses to grasp the word "subtorquata"

I've been staring at this grant for 3 days now and every time I try to spell it my brain still goes "Watersipora... subquortata? subaquortica?"

I swear I'm going to work on this thing for 2.5 years and I'm going to mispronounce it in my thesis defense

gonna start just making up names

watersipora horchata

watersipora qdoba

watersipora tostada

watersipora panna cotta

watersipora terracotta

/laughing
those are good additional names

watersipora magna carta

That last one is a winner

watersipora mahabharata

watersipora crum regatta

watersipora Beretta /photoshops a gun onto a bryozoan/

Me: under...tortured?

Torquatus is a Latin word meaning "adorned with a neck chain or collar"

under... collar...?

guessing it's describing the structure of the zooids

something about the apertures of the zoecia I think

Thesis ch 1: where the hell did this name come from