article_snippet: A new species of bug-eyed catfish with a suckermouth has been named after the Star Wars character Greedo.
article_snippet: A new species of bug-eyed catfish with a suckermouth has large eyes and a sucker mouth much like the bounty hunter Greedo (right) in that featured briefly at the start of the first installment of the original Star Wars films .
article_snippet: Professor Jonathan Armbruster, a biologist and curator of fishes at Auburn University Museum of Natural History, said Chris noticed the resemblance to the alien killed by Han Solo in the first of the original Star Wars films.
article_snippet: a species of beetle said: 'Chris looked at the specimen and said "that looks like that guy from Star Wars". '
article_snippet: Greedo, a bug-eyed green alien from the spaceport Mos Espa, was killed by Han Solo in a brief scene close to the start of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
article_snippet: It is not the first new species to be named after characters from the Star Wars films.
article_snippet: Professor Jonathan Armbruster (pictured above on the right with student Carrie Allison left) named the new species of catfish after his favourite character from the Star Wars films that his watched as a young boy .
article_snippet: A fossil trilobite which was found to belong to a new genus was given Han Solo by a palaeobiologist Samuel Turvey.
highlights_snippet: The fish has big eyes and a suckermouth just like the Star Wars character .
  
highlights_snippet: The creature joins dozens of other new animals to be named after the Star Wars films .