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Obscure Taxa; For interesting or obscure organisms you'd like to share.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picozoa

Picozoa are a group of marine eukaryotes

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In general rove beetles seem excellent at producing all sorts of odd compounds. The genus Pella, which live in ant nests, mimic the alarm pheromones of the ant species hosting them to avoid being attacked. Truly bizarre.
Mimicking pheromones to avoid being attacked by ants isn't a particularly unique ability though. There are hundreds of species (called "myrmecophiles" or "ant guests") that do this, from more than ten families of beetles to crickets, cockroaches, caterpillars, wasps, flies, spiders, silverfish, and possibly even snails that do everything from soliciting a little food from workers to devouring large quantities of larvae. Possibly the strangest is a mite that attaches itself to tip of an army ant's foot, its own enlarged hind legs replacing the ant's claws.
Tell me more about this mite
Don't know much about it and can't find its scientific name (it mite not have one yet) but here's a picture of one:

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It's Macrocheles rettenmeyeri, and it became famous through Journey to the Ants.
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In general rove beetles seem excellent at producing all sorts of odd compounds. The genus Pella, which live in ant nests, mimic the alarm pheromones of the ant species hosting them to avoid being attacked. Truly bizarre.
Mimicking pheromones to avoid being attacked by ants isn't a particularly unique ability though. There are hundreds of species (called "myrmecophiles" or "ant guests") that do this, from more than ten families of beetles to crickets, cockroaches, caterpillars, wasps, flies, spiders, silverfish, and possibly even snails that do everything from soliciting a little food from workers to devouring large quantities of larvae. Possibly the strangest is a mite that attaches itself to tip of an army ant's foot, its own enlarged hind legs replacing the ant's claws.
Tell me more about this mite
Don't know much about it and can't find its scientific name (it mite not have one yet) but here's a picture of one:

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I see what you did there
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Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Yeah, I was pretty sure that it had a name but I just wanted to make that pun.
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I see what you did there
given what you did with placozoa, that's fair.
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I see what you did there
given what you did with placozoa, that's fair.
Wait, what did I do with placozoa?
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Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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You posted a one- sentence entry with almost no information.
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You posted a one- sentence entry with almost no information.
Yes, the whole purpose of this thread is to teach people about taxa they might not have heard of. Just posting a single image and a link to the wikipedia article is supremely lazy, you should have actually taken time to describe them yourself, as others have done.
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You posted a one- sentence entry with almost no information.
Yes, the whole purpose of this thread is to teach people about taxa they might not have heard of. Just posting a single image and a link to the wikipedia article is supremely lazy, you should have actually taken time to describe them yourself, as others have done.
Sorry. But, there wasn't much to say
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

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Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Enteroxenos is a small parasite of sea cucumbers.
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It looks like a nematode, but it's actually a snail. Yes, it's a snail. We know this, not only because of genetic testing, but also because of their veliger larvae. But early on, they metamorphose, loosing their shell, muscular foot, tentacles and all other recognizable features of snail anatomy. Most of their body is filled with reproductive organs, so they absorb nutrients through their skin.



What kinds of pressures would push a snail to such extremes?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Kind of funny how much detail we can sometimes go into about losing major features, then nature's just like "Oh yeah, it just kind of lost all the snail-ey features, that's fine right?"
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Arixenia esau is a strange, viviparous earwig, parasitic on bats. I guess earwigs aren't as conservative as I thought.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arixenia_esau
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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