Species named after Sir David Attenborough - in pictures

Sir David Attenborough with a photograph of the Prethopalpus attenboroughi spider at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. Photograph: Tony Mcdonough/AAP

A newly discovered pygmy grasshopper species named after the broadcaster - Electrotettix attenboroughi, was found preserved in amber in the Dominican Republic. Photograph: Heads & Thomas/ZooKeys

Attenborough’s pitcher plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii), endemic to Palawan Island, the Philippines. The species appeared on the 2012 list of the world’s 100 most threatened species compiled by the IUCN species survival commission. Photograph: Ch’ien Lee/Corbis

This spectacular new species of tree, found only in Ecuador, was named Blakea attenboroughii after being discovered in 2009 in the Cerro Candelaria reserve. Photograph : World Land Trust

A long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) in the highland forests of New Guinea. Photograph: D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Corbis

Ctenocheloides attenboroughi, a new ghost shrimp with pectinate claw fingers from Madagascar. Photograph: Arthur Anker/Journal of Natural History

Dr John Long of Museum Victoria in Melbourne holds a model of a placoderm fish fossil that was was found in the Gogo area of north-west Western Australia and was named Materpiscis attenboroughi. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Attenborosaurus conybeari. This dinosaur lived in Europe during the Sinemurian stage of the early Jurassic period. Photograph: NHM

Trigonopterus attenboroughii is a species of flightless weevil in the genus Trigonopterus from Indonesia. Photograph: Alexander Riedel/ZooKeys

Solannona, a newly-identified plant in the new Sirdavidia genus, named after David Attenborough. The plant, found in Gabon, has a distinct shape, with red petals and up to 19 bright yellow stamen forming a cone Photograph: Dr. Thomas Couvreur

A new wildflower on the Brecon Beacons called Attenborough’s hawkweed (Hieracium attenboroughianum) is the first living species in the UK to be named after naturalist and TV presenter Sir David Attenborough Photograph: Tim Rich/National Trust