New Coral Named After Call of Duty: Black Ops

dotarray writes "An American aquarium supplier obviously has a gamer on the payroll, after naming two new forms of Acanthastrea coral after Activision's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. From the article: 'The Facebook post announcing the two new forms openly admits to the video gaming influence – and it’s not the first time a video game has inspired the Quality Marine coral namer – One of Swords points out that earlier this month, The Master Chief made its glorious pink-and-purple debut.'"

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[Mr. Freeman]

Just to reemphasize a point here: this is not any kind of scientific organization doing any kind of official naming. This is a thinly-veiled advertisement for an aquarium supplier which named two colors of coral some gamer-related terms. They aren't even named after call of duty specifically, they could refer to about 70% of games on the market.