Moving and Snaking  

Arthur O’Shaughnessy, whose Ode includes the lines “We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams”, as well as the famous phrase “we are the movers and shakers”, was also a well-known herpetologist who described six new species.

 
Merrily, merrily,
Arthur O’Shaughnessy,
maker of music and
dreamer of dreams,
 
also identified,
herpetologically,
creatures that slither in    
forests and streams.

Alex Steelsmith

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Pachydactylus oshaughnessyi (O'Shaughnessy's gecko)