Two-fer: the Triassic holostean Icarealcyon is named after both Icarus and Alcyone because the describer thought it might be able to fly.

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Acanthus is a genus of spiny plants named from the Greek myth of Acantha, a nymph who rejected Apollo's advances and scratched his cheek. So he turned her into a spiny plant...
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