Discovered by a team from UC Riverside, the worm was given the name because of Daniels' role in the 1990 hit movie "Arachnophobia." In it, he's the hero battling a lethal spider attack that's endangering his small town.
Daniels' response to the university's decision was, characteristically, wry and good-natured.
“When I first heard a new species of nematode had been named after me, I thought, ‘Why?
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