Aside from his music, there is now another thing that would remind us of Sir Elton John.
A newly discovered crustacean has been named after the singer, which is called Leocothoe eltoni.
The crustacean, which resembles a shrimp, was discovered in Indonesian coral reefs according to a report by News Week.
The discovery of the new sea creature was first reported in this week's issue of the journal ZooKeys.
Leocothoe eltoni was unearthed inside a reef. The reef and this undersea species are in a parasitic relationship, according to experts.
The News Week report added that the existing relationship is scientifically called a "commensal association," where the host neither loses nor benefits from the process.
According to News Week, James Thomas of the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography would always listen to Elton John's music whenever he is working at his laboratory.
The tiny sea creature, he shared, reminded him of the singer's famous footwear.
He said in a public statement, "When his unusual crustacean with a greatly enlarged appendage appeared under my microscope after a day of collection, an image of the shoes Elton John wore as the 'Pinball Wizard' came to mind."
Immediately after the sea creature was discovered in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, some scientists based in Hawaii claimed that L. eltoni actually arrived as invasive species, NBC news said in a report.
Published in the same journal, another species called Cherax snowden was named after Edward Snowden. He became a news item when he leaked documents of the National Security Agency to the public.
The first known specimens of the Cherax snowden crayfish were discovered sometime in 2006 also in Indonesia.
During that time, these were kept for ornamental purposes only, based on an article published by CNET.
Why this would appear as an honor to some, the CNET report explained that naming a news species after you is not always something to be happy about.
Robert Krulwish, a science writer, published an article in 2008 explaining how animals get their names, and some ended up as a form of criticism.
Case in point is the worm species called Khruschevia Ridicula that was named after a scientist who hated the Communist Party.
Another is the weed called Siegesbeckia named by botanist Carl Linneaus as his way to slash back at one of his greatest critics.