Chester Zoo Game

Mission Golden-eyed Treefrog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix), per the "Captain James Mission" who was described in A General History of the Pyrates, a book of dubious factual basis which was written under a pseudonym by an unknown author, often suggested to have been Daniel Defoe.
 
Thinking on it, that one might have been a little too obscure - so I will also post the other idea I was mulling over:

Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) - on the basis that this species has been popularised by the film Finding Nemo, which would in turn bring to mind the fictional Captain Nemo found within Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Mission Golden-eyed Treefrog, per the "Captain James Mission" who was described in A General History of the Pyrates, a book of dubious factual basis which was written under a pseudonym by an unknown author, often suggested to have been Daniel Defoe.
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nope. I haven't heard of Captain James Mission.

My pirate is not a Captain, although he was part of the crew of one of the Captains previously mentioned.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Thinking on it, that one might have been a little too obscure - so I will also post the other idea I was mulling over:

Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) - on the basis that this species has been popularised by the film Finding Nemo, which would in turn bring to mind the fictional Captain Nemo found within Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
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nope, not Captain Nemo. My pirate works on an actual pirate ship, not a submarine.
 
Here's my teaser.
The full name of this species contains the name of a place not too far from the Zoo. But, as far as I know, there are no direct connections between the place and the species or the place and the Zoo.
 
Time for another clue. The name of the person who discovered and described the species is often omitted from this animal's common name, but that name is present in an unusual Latinised form in the scientific name. Some older references say that another author described the species, but that is now considered untrue.
 
gentle lemur said:
Time for another clue. The name of the person who discovered and described the species is often omitted from this animal's common name, but that name is present in an unusual Latinised form in the scientific name. Some older references say that another author described the species, but that is now considered untrue.
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Bali mynah/Rothschild's mynah/Bali starling :p (I know @bongorob only likes one of those choices)
 
Sitatunga? Via Speke/spekii?
 
Maguari said:
Sitatunga? Via Speke/spekii?
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Got it!
There is no direct between the two Spekes and although Speke is not much more than 10 miles north of Upton-by-Chester as the crow flies (over Ellesmere Port and Stanlow oil refinery, then the Manchester ship canal and the widest part of the Mersey estuary), it is a much longer journey by road, either via the bridge at Runcorn or the Queensway tunnel. I was happy to avoid having to give a complicated clue involving John Lennon Airport (Lennon and Speke both called John and both died of gunshot wounds, which is quite macabre).
 
This one will either be very quick or very slow, I suspect (really hard to judge how strongly to clue it, so I've been mean to start with!):

Take one each of numbers 5, 7, 8, 15, 18, 27, 28, 32 and 53 and rearrange.
 
Maguari said:
This one will either be very quick or very slow, I suspect (really hard to judge how strongly to clue it, so I've been mean to start with!):

Take one each of numbers 5, 7, 8, 15, 18, 27, 28, 32 and 53 and rearrange.
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In a comedy sketch, it would be a Chinese banquet :D
 
The trick is it's a (particular form of) anagram. Think of things that have both numbers and letters to desginate them. ;)
 
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