Kiwaidae Family of Shellfish
The Kiwaidae family of shellfish are named after 'Kiwa, the goddess of shellfish in Polynesian Mythology'. This description of Kiwa is inaccurate, given that Māori sources all agree that Kiwa is a male guardian of the sea. Unfortunately, the team that discovered the shellfish in question used an entry in the unreliable Encyclopedia Mythica which assigns female gender to Kiwa as "mother of all shell-fish in Polynesian mythology".
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