Charon - ["Χάρων"] Greek mythology: an old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades.

Eponyms

(Moon) Charon Christy, 1978 (astronomical entity)
(Genus) Charonomicrobium Csotonyi et al. 2011 nom. inval. (prokaryote) Ref: 2020-present: [17 Apr 2026]. ("boatswain of Styx River in Greek and Roman mythology, the only being who could cross regularly between the common world and the underworld, symbolizing the way in which EG17T is able to survive by photosynthesizing on both sides of the aerobic/anaerobic redox gradient")

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Wikipedia (English)