Frank Zappa in popular culture

As an icon of counterculture and underground rock the American rock musician and composer Frank Zappa has been featured and referenced in various different media.
Biology.
In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea "Zappa" after Zappa, stating that he liked "his music... his politics and principles" and that "the name itself is a good one for scientific nomenclature."
Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a phialellid jellyfish "Phialella zappai" in order to get the chance to meet the musician. A Zappa concert in Genoa focused largely on the jellyfish and on Dr. Boero. A small portion of this concert was released on "" as "Lonesome Cowboy Nando". Zappa stated, "There is nothing I'd like better than to have a jellyfish named after me."
Other species named after Zappa include a fossil snail named "Amaurotoma zappa" and the Cameroonese spider "Pachygnatha zappa", so named because a marking on the female's ventral surface resembles the Zappa mustache. A gene of the bacterium "Proteus mirabilis" that causes urinary tract infection is named "zapA" (others are named "zapB" through "zapE").