After the Joker fish we get: the Batman fish!

A fish specialist has named his latest discovery, a type of catfish, after the Batman because of the batlike markings on its tail.

Ichthyologist Pablo Lehmann, of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, has named the species Otocinclus batmani in a paper in the current volume of the journal Neotropical Ichthyology.

“The name batmani, alludes to Bob Kane’s hero Batman of the comic adventures, which had a bat shape for his symbol, referring to the single W- or bat-shaped vertical spot on the caudal fin”, wrote Lehmann.

[Spotted via Spluch.]