This is a very interesting topic. The name game. Part of the reason I think it's funny/interesting is the same thing happened about 15-20 years ago in another hobby I participate in. This being the miniature reef-keeping hobby, and the propagation of live corals (yes, it's easy to do these days). Early on there were a few common names for some common corals, but some people also (when possible) used scientific (latin) names for the corals. Then some people started putting their names on some of there corals because they would propagate them (they can be cut just like plants {they are not plants}) and try to act like they were super rare.
First it was just their name (the person's name), plus a simple description of the coral (I even have some of these if you search on my name). Then people started adding all kinds of fancy descriptions to the corals (mostly relating to colors, sometimes to the colors of comic book superheros!). Of course to add confusion, many times the same coral (a cutting from the coral, identical genetically, a clone) will look different in one tank vs. another due to lighting, water motion, and many other husbandry practices.
Sometimes even the coral will look radically different in color (I've seen it myself in moving corals between my own reef tanks). The hobby took this to an extreme level in the past 10 years. There are some corals which are likely all the same (or closely related species) but of which there may be dozens or even hundreds of color variations. People LOVE to collect stuff (particularly men I think) so they have to have one of everything. And then they go totally nuts in naming them. There are even web site devoted to keeping track of all the crazy names that people dream up. Here are just a few off the top of one site: Alien Eye, Orange Oxide, Ultimate Campfire, Blue Orgasm, Lemon Heads, Golden Leopards, Blonde Dancers, Utter Chaos, Rainbow Incinerator, Laser Lemons (all from a site called Zoabrary, for Zoanthid Library).
So...my point...you could end up with a real mess with no idea how to figure out the source of stuff if the rock hounding/lapidary hobby goes this direction. YIKES!