Harrison Ford's name used to name new Peruvian snake species found

's name has been used for a recently-discovered snake species in Peru's Andes Mountains.

The Chicago-born actor, 81, inspired the naming of the snake - the Tachymenoides harrisonfordi - which is a pale yellowish-brown, measuring at 16 inches long.

'These scientists keep naming critters after me, but it's always the ones that terrify children ... I don't understand,' Ford, a longtime for environmental causes, said in a statement to .

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