Coming of the heels of NASA creating a public contest to name a part of the space station, A scientific team is opening up the naming of a new species of jellyfish to help celebrate the Year of Science.

The species was discovered by a young girl swimming off a beach in Bonaire, down in the Carribean. She was stung and ended up in the hospital. Cue a scientific team investigating the event and voila we have a new species. This happens all the time, thousands of new species are discovered each year.

But it is a first to open the naming up to the public. There are of course some rules:

* Names have to be in Latin letters (not Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.).
* No accents, apostrophes, or hyphens, etc. are allowed (no diacriticals).
* As mentioned, the species name begins with a lowercase letter.
* The name has to be more than one letter long.
* The name can be a word, name, in any language, and even just mixed up letters (but what would be the point of that?).
* The name (Genusname speciesname) has to be unique. So, in our case, species names that have been used for
Tamoya, such as haplonema or prismatica would not be allowed, having already been used.

To submit your own name, head over to the Year of Science’s Website.

And yes, Colbert Nation is already throwing a name into the ring: Tamoya colberti.

Watch a video of the jellyfish below: