The Behm5 and Helmus note: Longest same-name coauthor list ever?

Jocelyn and Matt published a note in Herpetological Review on a new record of the exotic Mediterranean House Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) on Hilton Head Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina. While this might not sound like a big deal, here is the list of authors

  1. JOCELYN E. BEHM
  2. CHIARA F. BEHM
  3. GEORGIA M. BEHM
  4. MARK C. BEHM
  5. SARAH P. BEHM
  6. MATTHEW R. HELMUS

Yes! Jocelyn’s family helped us to survey and find this prolific exotic for the first time on Hilton Head island! After weeks and weeks of searching library databases of scientific literature, iEcoLab is 99.9935% certain that this note is the longest list of repeated same-name coauthors ever published…

Hemidactylus turcicus

 

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