This shrimp species was named by Luc Longley.

You can’t make this stuff up – from Wired:

A shrimp that lives on southwest coast of Australia has a new name, thanks to an Australian graduate student, eBay and former NBA basketball player Luc Longley.

It all started when Anna McCallum, now a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne, discovered a previously unknown shrimp while working as an assistant on a research boat. Instead of naming it herself, she decided to auction the right to name the shrimp on eBay and donate the proceeds to the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

The bidding got hot and heavy with sea-life lovers like Bob Rosenberry, publisher of Shrimp News International, bidding up to $2,000. Still, the winning bid of $2,900 came as a shock.

“It was a total surprise that a basketballer would be interested in this little deep-sea shrimp,” McCallum told The Scientist.

Longley, who had participated in marine conservation efforts before, named the shrimp Lebbeus clarehanna after his 15-year-old daughter, Clare Hanna Longley.

For those unfamiliar with the accolades of Mr. Longley, he wasn’t what you’d call a standout player. In fact, he was a rather clunky, possibly overweight white dude. But he happened to play on the Chicago Bulls, circa 1994-1998, also known as the second half of the Jordan era, and got himself three championship rings in the process.