List of organisms named after the Star Wars series

Newly created taxonomic names in biological nomenclature often reflect the discoverer's interests or honour those the discoverer holds in esteem, including fictional elements from works like Star Wars.

[1][2][3] This is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference the fictional Star Wars franchise.

The species was given the common name "Skywalker hoolock gibbon".

Candidatus Midichloria lives symbiotically in the ovary cells of female ticks.

Artist's reconstruction of Han solo , a trilobite species named in-part after Han Solo