1. The knowledge and awareness that the general public has about aquatic invertebrates is often poor, even when they are highly threatened. The frequent lack of popular names and the unattractiveness of the scientific ones may be among the factors hindering the knowledge of these organisms and, consequently, the awareness of their conservation status and the willingness to conserve them.
2. Linderiella baetica (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca) was discovered in 2007 in southern Spain and is considered a critically endangered species. However, being a small invertebrate inhabiting generally unappreciated temporary ponds, this species was completely unknown by the general public, even in the area in which it occurs.
3. To increase the knowledge and awareness of L. baetica, 1,347 children from five schools within its distribution area participated in a contest to select a common name for this newly described taxon. The winning name, gambilusa (Andalusian shrimp), will be used in the future by the Spanish Ministry of Environment and hopefully by the general public to identify the species.
4. The contest was found to have increased the knowledge about the target species in a sustained manner, as 1 year later, 93% of the children recognized gambilusa as a crustacean, 75% remembered its typical habitat, and 89% broadly identified its geographical distribution.
5. This kind of name-choosing contest is applicable for different regions and taxa to raise awareness on the conservation of threatened but poorly known biota.

中文翻译：

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从林德瑞拉贝蒂卡到冈比鲁萨：通过给一个新物种一个通用名称来让儿童参与保护

1. 公众对水生无脊椎动物的知识和意识往往很差，即使它们受到高度威胁。经常缺乏流行名称和科学名称的缺乏吸引力可能是阻碍了解这些生物的因素之一，因此阻碍了对其保护状况的认识和保护它们的意愿。
2. Linderiella baetica（甲壳纲，Branchipoda，Anostraca）于 2007 年在西班牙南部被发现，被认为是极度濒危物种。然而，作为一种小型无脊椎动物，它栖息在普遍不受重视的临时池塘中，公众完全不知道该物种，即使在它发生的地区也是如此。
3. 为了提高对L. baetica的了解和认识，来自其分布区域内五所学校的 1,347 名儿童参加了为这一新描述的分类群选择通用名称的竞赛。获奖名称 gambilusa（安达卢西亚虾）将在未来被西班牙环境部使用，并希望公众能够识别该物种。
4. 比赛被发现以持续的方式增加了对目标物种的了解，因为一年后，93%的孩子认出gambilusa是甲壳类动物，75%的孩子记得它的典型栖息地，89%的孩子大致确定了它的地理分布。
5. 这种命名竞赛适用于不同地区和不同分类群，以提高对受威胁但知之甚少的生物群的保护意识。