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Obscure Taxa; For interesting or obscure organisms you'd like to share.
Topic Started: Dec 14 2016, 09:46 PM (48,907 Views)
IIGSY
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Holben
May 6 2018, 03:11 AM
Ricaniidae includes some important agricultural pests living from Turkey to Japan, and now introduced to Europe. They feed on sap from a very wide variety of crop species, from cucumbers to tea to kiwis. Scolypopa australis is another Ricaniid pest introduced from Australia to NZ in the 1870s, and they may have been responsible for several cases of honey poisoning in the late 19th century (where bees pick up honeydew left by them and incorporate it into honey)
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Rumbo a la Victoria

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I find single species families pretty interesting in their own right. First of many, last of their kind, or a temporary contraction that one was more diverse, and will radiate out again.

The Bornean bristlehead Pityriasis gymnocephala is the only memeber of the family Pityriaseidae. It's a bird that lives in the canopies of Borneo rain forests, and while probably not that rare, isn't massively abundant either.

They are quite large birds, a bit bigger than a Common starling, with a very heavy bill and a sparsely feathered head.

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Its habitat means it is not well studied. They live in small flocks, often associating with other birds, and may raise their young communally. Wikipedia claims they are herbivores and frugivores, but birding websites say it is a hunter of large insects that occasionally eats fruit. I'm gonna trust the birders.

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Prime Specimen
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Wonder what other birds it associates with. Would be interesting to study.
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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I'm sure most people here are familiar with Thalassocnus, the aquatic sloth . . .

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But this new image by Oliver Demuth is simply gorgeous and deserves to be put here. I'm in love with it - sometimes you see images of this creature with shaggy fur, which doesn't make a great deal of sense for an aquatic creature. I love how in this it's clearly its own creature, not just a sloth stuck underwater - even down to the eyes, which remind me of sea lions. Just . . . fantastic.
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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They resemble pretty much the hippos.
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Dasyurid
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Phascogales, also known as wambengers, are a genus of bushy-tailed dasyurids. They are noted for being the most arboreal of the carnivorous marsupials. There are 3 species:

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The Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa).

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The Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale pirata), a recent split from the previous species.

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And the Red-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale calura), the smallest of all.

Like several other dasyurids, the males die after the mating season. They do not have a true pouch, instead they have some temporary skin folds known as a 'pseudo-pouch'. The Brush-tailed and Red-tailed are classed as Near Threatened, while the Northern is classed as Vulnerable.
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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LλmbdaExplosion
May 9 2018, 02:01 PM
They resemble pretty much the hippos.
. . . I don't really see how
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Look more like an elongated manatee with legs than a hippo.
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Chuditch
May 9 2018, 06:45 PM
instead they have some temporary skin folds known as a 'pseudo-pouch'.
seasonal pouch?
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
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May 12 2018, 06:12 AM
Chuditch
May 9 2018, 06:45 PM
instead they have some temporary skin folds known as a 'pseudo-pouch'.
seasonal pouch?
Yep. They develop folds of skin around the mammary glands during pregnancy.
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hm how comes no oen has thotugh of those in spec
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
"
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Beetleboy
May 11 2018, 02:04 PM
LλmbdaExplosion
May 9 2018, 02:01 PM
They resemble pretty much the hippos.
. . . I don't really see how
The color and the head is just too similar,lol.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




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What an interesting marsupial. They way they reproduce is very reminiscent of insects, with the whole "dying after mating" thing.
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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.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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IIGSY
May 12 2018, 10:50 AM
What an interesting marsupial. They way they reproduce is very reminiscent of insects, with the whole "dying after mating" thing.
Several other dasyurids, including antechinuses and the Northern Quoll, also have males that die after mating. It seems to be a popular choice for the smaller species.
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