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Name the Bug #9

By Christopher Taylor at 1/05/2010 04:09:00 pm


I'm pretty sure you all know the drill by now. Attribution, as always, to follow.

Update: Identification now available here. Photo from here.

5 comments:

  1. Psi Wavefunction5 January 2010 at 19:33

    Any idea of scale on that thing?


    (Btw, TC-S has a sea of brand new taxa out if you're curious. Seems to have changed his mind on the whole unikont/bikont thing. For the time being. He'll revert back to it next weekend.)

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  2. Christopher Taylor5 January 2010 at 20:14

    Probably about 200 μm across.

    And yes, I saw the new Cavalier-Smith paper. I've read it, but so far I've lacked the strength to comment. I do have one thing to say: Everyone, I mean everyone else, is happy to drop any sort of Sarcomastigophora concept. Just. Give. It. Up.

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  3. Psi Wavefunction6 January 2010 at 03:56

    Some weird centrohelid? Like Raphidophrys?

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  4. Christopher Taylor6 January 2010 at 04:38

    No, but you're thinking along the right sort of lines.

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  5. Psi Wavefunction6 January 2010 at 05:39

    AH! Taxopodida: Sticholonche zanclea!
    http://blog-imgs-32.fc2.com/b/i/o/biodic07/20090220120155.jpg

    Completely forgot about Sticholonche... >_>

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