Welcome to the Catalogue of Organisms Table of Contents. Here you can find links to all the major posts on this site, arranged by their subject. Enjoy!
Methods and Concepts:
Wot? No inverts?
Blog Action Day—what have we lost?
A dragonfly in amber: how it got there
Indian entomologists cut off
More than one way to skin a cat (or fertilise a female)
Implications of Aetogate: who owns the data?
Inevitable moles in a lonely universe
Is taxonomy a science
Inevitable Spandrels on a biology blog
The overwhelming diversity of life
Nomenclature
Why do we bother?
What would the ICZN do?
The gender of a table
Phylogenetic nomenclature—oui ou non?
Getting the hang of compromisation
Why use phylogeny?
What's in a name?
Hey, old taxo! My genus is better than yours!
A minor complaint about Google, and a major complaint about ranked taxonomy
The claim-jumpers and grave-robbers of taxonomy
Publication
A new stem-bird and publication in the digital age
Electronic publication in the ICZN—new proposals
Define "published"
The perils of peer review
Some thoughts on how to make electronic publication work
The problem of publication again
Thoughts inspired by a private publication
It's the end of the world as we know it...
The ICZN and electronic publication: where did it go wrong?
O ZooBank, where art thou?
Species Recognition
The Phylogenetic Species Concept: is there such a thing as too much?
What are the bare necessities?
The significance of type specimens, and more on Utrecht
The importance of vouchers: even molecular workers need herbaria
Poor taxonomic practice takes some f***ing liberties!
Keeping an eye on inflation
How to recognise a species
How to write a key
Geology:
Holy careening continents, Batman!
Of serpentine soils
Biographies:
Maison Verreaux—animals of all varieties
Alexandre Girault: a man against the world
The worst of Girault
Taxonomy Quizzes:
Completely frivolous taxonomy quiz
42 [answers to above]
Taxonomy trivia quiz #2: you've come a long way, baby
Secret identities [answers to above]
Specific Taxa:
Eukaryota
Salinella—what the crap was it?
Is it a sponge, or is it a plant?
Naming the monad
Giants of the Silurian
Why animals are not plants
More things in heaven and ocean
Fungus and the individual
Prototaxites: a giant that never was?
Life on Mars: the Cambrian terrestrial environment
Prototaxites revisited
Euglenozoa
Percolozoa
The diversity of slime moulds
Loukozoa
Corticata
Crossing the algal divide
Glaucophyta
Rhodophyta
Little discs of doom
A parasite in the family
Coral—it's not just an animal thing
Carpospores in chains (Taxon of the Week: Schizoserideae)
The alga of uncertainty
Chlorophyta
Charophyta
Conjugophyceae
Embryophyta
Giving plants the glove
Marchantiophyta
Some like it cold (Taxon of the Week: Saccogynidium vasculosum
Musci
Southern moss (Taxon of the Week: Ptychomitrium muelleri)
Mosses: not as simple as you think (Taxon of the Week: Ectropothecium)
The trials and tribulations of tree moss
Mosses have a place for reproduction
Brachythecium salebrosum: some like it temperate
Anthocerotophyta
Apo-Tracheophyta
Tracheophyta
Trimerophytina
Before the word for world was forest
Lignophyta
Medullosales
Spermatophyta
The origins of flowers
Cycadophyta
Coniferophyta
Pan-Gnetophyta
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Angiospermae
Austrobaileyales
Mesangiospermae
Eudicotyledoneae
Ranunculales
Gunneridae
Flowers from two to five
Dilleniaceae
The Dilleniaceae: tropical enigmas
Saxifragales
Taxon of the Week: Misplaced Hawaiians
Rosidae
Malvidae
Are you sucking on a lemon or a lime?
Fabidae
The fall of Rafflesiales
Taxon of this Week: not all violets are violet
Reference review: Brooms of New Zealand
Taxon of the Week: Cotoneaster
Nettle, where is thy sting?
In a bunch, in a bunch!
A South American paradox (Taxon of the Week: Sellocharis)
A simple stream life
Cunoniaceae and friends
Milk-vetches, liquorice and locoweeds
Lecantheae and/or Elatostemateae
Santalanae
Christmas is coming
Caryophyllales
Stars in the pasture
Prickly pears
Asteridae
Taxon of the Week: Misplaced Hawaiians
Ericales
Name the bug: Fouquieria columnaris
Gentianidae
Garryidae
Hebe or Veronica?
My flower is a trumpet (Taxon of the Week: Solanales)
Borage and comfrey and bugloss
Sending forget-me-nots
Campanulidae
Thistle be the one (Taxon of the Week: Carduoideae)
Ginseng and ivy
Proteaceae
The fall of Dryandra
Monocotyledoneae
Reference review: The monocot tree
Alismatanae
Flowers in the water (Taxon of the Week: Hydrocharitaceae)
Taxon of the Week: Rhaphidophora
Name the Bug: Pistia stratiotes
The thalli that are green (Taxon of the Week: Lemnoideae)
Liliidae
Pandanales
Liliales
Peeling the lily
Commelinidae
Strangers from parts unknown (Taxa of the Week: Juncus section Juncotypus, Juncus amabilis)
Scattering the sheaves (Taxon of the Week: Elymus)
Stacks of barley (Taxon of the Week: Hordeum)
From giant reeds to tiny leaves
The resurrection of grass
Asparagales
There's treasure everywhere
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Patterns on a squill
Magnoliidae
Taxon of the Week: Spices of Gondwana
Nymphaeales
Monilophyta
When ferns don't look like ferns
Focus on a fern (Taxon of the Week: Polystichum vestitum)
It's not what you think
From tree moss to tree ferns
Lycopodiopsida
Alveolata
Little whirling photosynthetic (and not so photosynthetic) thingies
Pseudo-worms and such
Taxon of the Week: A selection of ciliates
Another non-missing not-quite-link
Of macros and micros
Of gregarines
Like, wow. Just... wow
The schizosphere (Taxon of the Week: Schizosphaerella)
Taxon of the Week: Protoperidinium grande
The state of Peridinium
Glenodinium and the horseshoe of light
Heterokonta
Filling in the gaps
Parcelling plastids
Giant cannibal algae from the watery ditch
Slime nets: another group of not-fungi
Return of the slime-nets
Algal threads (Taxon of the Week: Myrionemataceae)
The wracks
Cercozoa
Radiozoa
Name the Bug: Sticholonche zanclea
Foraminifera
Polythalamea
Hemisphaerammininae
Lagynacea
Hyperamminidae
Rhizamminidae
If a komokiacean turns up in a phylogeny, will anybody notice?
Xenophyophorea
Living with poo—a new xenophyophore
Saccamminidae
A small bag of grains (Taxon of the Week: Saccamminidae)
Three random foram genera (Taxon of the Week: Pelosininae)
Ammodiscidae
Miliolida
Trochamminidae
Rotaliina
Star sands (Taxon of the Week: Calcarinidae)
Floating forams (Taxon of the Week: Globorotaliidae)
The Rotaliida: building a wall
The Osangulariidae: deep-water trochospires
Haplophragmiidae
Textulariidae
Lagenida
Fusulinida
Hacrobia
Amoebozoa
TAFKAMI
The diversity of slime moulds
TAFKAMI walks
Amoeba: much weirder than you think
Amoebozoan classification: putting the formless in formation
Tubulinea: the paragons of amoeboids
Discosea: keeping a low profile
Amoebozoan oddments
Archamoebae: the apogee (or nadir) of amoebozoan evolution
Apusozoa
Opisthokonta
Fungi
Microsporidia
Chytridiomycetes
Entomophthorales
Meromycetidae
Mucormycotina
Glomeromycota
Ascomycota
Taphrinomycotina
Saccharomycotina
Taxon of the Week: A barely pronounceable yeast
Pezizomycotina
Orbiliaceae
Pezizales
Saddling the truffles
Lichinales
Lecanoromycetes
Learning to like lichen
Geoglossaceae
Sordariomycetes
Reference review: Messing about with mildews
Reference review: The trials of anamorphic fungi
If they only wood (Taxon of the Week: Diaporthales)
Laboulbeniomycetes
Leotiomycetes
Arthoniales
Dothideomycetes
Basidiomycota
A relict fungus on a relict host
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Ending life in a puddle of ichor (Taxon of the Week: Coprinopsis herbivora)
The mushroom tree
Animalia
Tons of little tubes
More little tubes—not just tons but tonnes
Scleritome Week: The cactus animals
Scleritome Week: A mystery ending
The trouble with coelosclerites
Calcarea
Ctenophora
Hyalospongiae
Cnidaria
The return of Buddenbrockia
Buddenbrockia: the gift that keeps on giving
E pluribus unum
Coral love
Thought-crime: I have slandered the gelatinous
Conical problematica
From three to two
A brain explosion
Bilateria
Ecdysozoa
Scleritome Week: Worm buttons
Priapulida
Nematoda
It's nematodes all the way down
Tardigrada
Oh #$%^& me—it's the Taxon of the (last) Week
My first tardigrades
Return of the water bears (Taxon of the Week: Tardigrada)
Archechiniscus: distinctively indifferent
Nematomorpha
Gryllicide
Gordians
Kinorhyncha
Onychophora
Welcome to Scleritome Week: The little nets
Arthropoda
Chain, chain, chain
Blinding me with Science
A quick primer on arthropod growth
Cheliceriformes
Chelicerata
Pycnogonida
Arachnida
Another word on arachnid phylogeny
Scorpiones
Opiliones
Cyphophthalmi
Cyphophthalmids wait for the mountain to come to them
More tales of the crunchy
Laniatores
Synthetonychia
Triaenonychidae
Saintly harvestmen (Taxon of the Week: Equitius)
Travunioidea
Grassatores
Taxon of the Week: Cynortula, Cynortula
Taxon of the Week: Stygnoplus
Taxon of the Week: Collonychium
Gonyleptids are just so cool
Taxon of the Week: Metarhaucus
Biantidae: the importance of titillators
Palpatores
What is a daddy-longlegs?
Gnah! Gagrella! Headdesk!
Remarkable things
More Gagrellinae (Taxon of the Week: Harmanda)
Score one for biogeography
Possibly the coolest thing I had published this year
How to wipe out a family
Disco opilioni
The Gagrella problem cranked up to eleven
The saga of Forsteropsalis fabulosa
Palpigradi
Acaromorpha
Cryptognomae
The hard way to be a bloodsucker (Taxon of the Week: Ixodidae)
Brown ticks
Prostigmata
Your little friends that are with you always
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
The Pygmephoroidea: lives of phoresy and fungi
The Prostigmata: endless forms
Sarcoptiformes
Holonota
Mite-in-a-box
Brachypylina
Poronoticae
On a wing and a mite
Pycnonoticae
South American mites
Desmonomata
Life in the fast lane (Taxon of the Week: Astigmata)
An introduction to Malaconothrus
Mixonomata
Enarthronota
Palaeacaroidea
Haplocnemata
Trigonotarbida
Araneae
Attercop
Mygalomorphae
Tarantulas sans tarantella
Araneomorphae
What is a daddy-longlegs?
Spiders losing their lungs
Austrochiloidea
Entelegynae
Eresidae
Palpimanoidea
The strangest of spiders
Tubitelariae
Taxon of the Week: Eye of the spider
Amaurobioidea: rummaging through a wastebasket
Salticid spider bollocks
Taxon of the Week: Amphinectidae
Big bad wolfies (Taxon of the Week: Lycosidae)
More wolfies (Taxon of the Week: Artoriinae)
Lace web weavers
Orbiculariae
The one about sexual cannibalism
Araneidae—with web and with scent
Segestriidae
Pedipalpi
Leanchoiliidacea
Euthycarcinoidea
Myriapoda
Pancrustacea
Vericrustacea
Branchiopoda
Brine fairies
Copepoda
Taxon of the Week: Some copepods for your reading pleasure
Another case of mistaken identity
Life in sand
Phyllocarida
Hoplocarida
Eumalacostraca
Eucarida
Reference Review: The secret of Bubba-Gump's success
Getting crabs
Kneel before the shrimp queen
Crabs that cannot scratch their heads (Taxon of the Week: Parthenopidae)
The Grapsidae: from sea to shore
Syncarida
Peracarida
Taxon of the (this) Week—Holarctic subterranean amphipods, Batman!
Southern crustacean relicts
Another case of mistaken identity
Snail mimics and marine symbionts (Taxon of the Week: Pleustidae)
Flower-tails
Burrowing beaky amphipods
Life among a shrimp's gills
Tantulocarida
Thecostraca
Reference review: Barnacles among the coral
The secret of y-larvae
Forcing out the secret
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Panhexapoda
(Possibly) The World's Smallest Tetrapods
Insecta
Bouncing bristletails
Textbook death match: Insect palaeontology
Zygentoma
Pterygota
The origin of insect wings
A Devonian pterygote?
Ephemeroptera
What is the sound of one mayfly fossilising?
Everything you knew about mayflies is wrong (Taxon of the Week: Pisciforma)
Mayflies in their spring
Odonatoptera
A halfway house, halfway down Honshu island
Palaeodictyopterida
Big suckers
Polyneoptera
Because it's Friday...
A seclusion of Embioptera
A choir of Zoraptera
When parsimony goes wrong: the wings of stick insects
All about Gerarus
Name that Bug: Ponopterix axelrodi
Wigs and wings and other things
The stoneflies: old or new?
Paraneoptera
Hypoperlida
  ; Psocoptera
Barklice and booklice and such
The Psocoptera of Barrow Island
Hemiptera
Love Hurts
Soft waxy scales
Soft yet scaly (Taxon of the Week: Coccidae)
The overall scale
Thysanoptera
A vision of thrips
Holometabola
The really abominable mystery
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinoidea
Siricomorpha
Apocrita
A bunch of apocrites
Aculeata
Eureka! It's an ant!
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Ants on the move (Taxon of the Week: Dorylidae)
Ants go out in the noonday sun
What to do with a dead hummingbird
Ichneumonoidea
Multifarities most horrid (Taxon of the Week: Braconidae)
Proctotrupomorpha
Taxon of the Week: To give Lovecraft nightmares
Diapriidae
Cynipoidea
Chalcidoidea
Mymaridae
Ormyrus
Ormyrids: attacking the gall
Tetracampinae
Torymidae
Tanaostigmodes
Eucharitidae
Eulophidae
A new short-horned Elasmus
Perilampidae
Aphelinidae
Trichogrammatidae
Encyrtini
Eurytomidae
Agaonidae
Eupelmidae
Pteromalidae
Chalcididae
Brachymeria perflavipes and beyond
Platygastroidea
Panorpoidea
Lepidoptera
Diversity and distribution of tropical Lepidoptera: a bit of cross-purposes
Micropterigidae
Glossata
Exoporia
Heteroneura
Incurvarioidea
Ditrysia
Apoditrysia
Taxon of the Week: butterflies on parasites
The sphinxes that aren't like the others (Taxon of the Week: Smerinthini)
Caterpillars and their capers (Taxon of the Week: Belenois)
Blues (not all of them blue) (Taxon of the Week: Polyommatus)
Colour vs crypsis
Deceptive and poisonous sisters
Yponomeutoidea
Gelechioidea
The butterflies get all the glory (Taxon of the Week: Gelechioidea
Trichoptera
Antliophora
Insects never fail to amaze
What is a daddy-longlegs?
A queenage of Strepsiptera
Drosophila forever?
More on Drosophila and Sophophora
"Electronic publication of nomenclatural acts is inevitable"
Name the Bug: Boreus
More in the bloodsucking vein (Taxon of the Week: Simulium)
In which, despite not being the crowd favourite, Drosophila funebris holds D. melanogaster down and kicks it repeatedly in the teeth
More than just Sophophora (Taxon of the Week: Drosophilidae)
Freak of the Week: wingless, legless flies
Coleoptera
Archostemata
What is the sound of one mayfly fossilising?
Eating mum from the inside out
Adephaga
The diversity of ground beetles
Ground beetles for today
Polyphaga
Staphyliniformia
Life with termites
The Corotocini in their gut-swollen glory
Bryaxis on the prowl
Elateriformia
Scarabaeoidea
Cucujiformia
There's something on your back (Taxon of the Week: Prioninae)
Weevil ball (Taxon of the Week: Diorymerina)
Neuropterida
Of lions and lace
Butterflies before there were butterflies
Name that Bug: Meioneurites spectabilis
Name the Bug: Psectra diptera
The red-lined wings of South America
Ant-lions of Australia
Collembola
Remipedia
Oligostraca
The august history of filter-feeding ostracods
Helmetiida
Trilobita
Chaetognatha
Lophotrochozoa
Trochozoa
The trouble with coelosclerites
Mollusca
Tons of little tubes
So nice when people agree with you
Gastropoda
Snails letting it all hang out
Neritimorpha
Nerites old and new
Vetigastropoda
A different kind of shell
Name the Bug: Alaskiella medfraensis
Marginal limpets
Caenogastropoda
Procaenogastropoda
Ampullarioidea
Sorbeoconcha
Cerithioidea
In which I am defeated by shells
Campaniloidea
Littorinimorpha
The life of an ostrich foot
Stop giggling (Taxon of the Week: Fartulum)
Careful with that spelling (Taxon of the Week: Barleeiidae)
Snails that never see the light of day
Ptenoglossa
Conoidea
Taxon of the Week: Toxic sea snails
A whole new twist on things, or just shifting back and forth?
Fifteen seconds of mediocrity
Asperdaphne, I don't know who you are any more
Muricoidea
(Belated) Taxon of the Week: The bishop's Mitra
The coral-lovers
Cyclophoroidea
Viviparoidea
Heterobranchia
I's been ejucated, now I can haz snails pleez? Kthnx
Food that puts more than just hairs on your chest
The beautiful angel of death
Taxon of the Week: Clausilioidea
Wild slug chases (Taxon of the Week: Gastrodontoidea)
Name that Bug: Cornu aspersum
Re-opening the door (Taxon of the Week: Clausilioidea)
A little bit of Gastrocopta
Eogastropoda
Limpets of the north-east Atlantic
Bivalvia
The calcareous heart
Pig's toes and water nymphs
Bivalves born free (Taxon of the Week: Pectinoidea)
Triassic, glorious Triassic
Polyplacophora
With plate and girdle (Taxon of the Week: Ischnochitonidae)
Merismoconchidae
Rostroconchia
The beak-shells's legacy
Archaeobranchia
Name the Bug: Yochelcionella daleki
Solenogastres
Cephalopoda
Day of the Tentacle
More giant cephalopods
The floating egg
Open query—what are cephalopod shells for?
When is a cephalopod like a snake?
How to be straight
Nectocaris: largely irrelevant to cephalopods?
Ammonites of the Arctic (Taxon of the Week: Arctocephalitinae)
The horns of Ammon
Kryptrochozoa
Taxon of the Week: The lamp (shell) post
Back to the scleritome—tommotiids revealed!
More giant larvae
More crunchy scleritome goodness
The Athyrididae: spiralia and lamellae
Annelida
Yay, machaeridians!
Separating segments
More crunchy scleritome goodness
My genitals just grew eyes and swam away: the life of a syllid worm
Building a home of your own (Taxon of the Week: Hydroides)
Of interstitial annelids (Taxon of the Week: Pisionidae)
Earthworms of the Amazon (Taxon of the Week: Urobenus buritis)
Exogone sexoculata, a worm of the interstitial
Polyzoa
Tiny flowers of the sea
Colonies on the move
Taxon of the Week: Lacy Lepraliellidae
Gunky lace
The long-whipped bryozoan
Platyzoa
Taxon of last Week: I can't think of a clever title involving gastrotrichs
Sex and the rotifer
Deuterostomia
Hemichordata
I can has mutant larvae?
The writing in the rocks
Further readings from the rocks (Taxon of the Week: Graptolithina
Name the Bug: Acanthastus luniewskii
Rastrites: stringing out thecae
Tetragraptines
Echinodermata
Conversations with Cothurnocystis
Ankyroida
Cincta
Soluta
Helicoplacoidea
Name the Bug: Polyplacus kilmeri
Cyclocystoidea
Blastozoa
A beginner's guide to blastoids
Callocystitids: ambulacra advancement and rhomb reduction
Crinoidea
Taxon of the Week: So many arms
Return to the crinoids
Clutching crinoids
Forgotten feather stars
Crinoids of the open seas
Eleutherozoa
Mystery animal for today
Hemiaster: an echinoid with heart
Chordata
Urochordata
Vertebrata
Cyclostomata
Conodonta
Time for teeth (Taxon of the Week: Polygnathus)
Conodonts: they just got scarier
A little Linguipolygnathus
Linguipolygnathus redux
Birkeniida
Pteraspidomorphi
Thelodontomorphi
Gnathostomata
Arthrodira
Acanthodii
Scleritome Week: Not just an invert thing
Climatiida
Just when you thought it was safe
A bizarre new shark
Actinopterygii
Polypteriformes
Actinopteri
Who left all this fish lying around? (Taxon of the Week: Neopterygii)
Acipenseriformes
Teleostei
Pachycormidae
Osteoglossiformes
Otocephala
Esociformes
Osmeriformes
Salmonidae
Neoteleostei
Stomiiformes
Taxon of the Week #1: Gonostomatidae
Myctophiformes
Living larvae and fossil fish
Hunters in the deep sea
Acanthomorpha
The bush at the top of the tree
Perciformes go bye-bye?
Stephanoberyciformes
Holocentridae
Percomorpha
Taxon of the Week #2: Trachinoidei
Ophidiiformes
The live-bearing brotulas
Batrachoididae
Gobiiformes
Stromateoidei
Pomfrets of the high seas
Gerreidae
Ambassis
Syngnathidae
Parupeneus
Callionymoidei
Stiassnyiformes
Anabantiformes
Carangimorpha
The ugly stick in action
Lutjanus
Caesionidae
Sillago
Leiognathidae
Siganus
Labroidei
Priacanthidae
Lethrinidae
Taxon of the Week: Give us a kiss!
Tetraodontiformes
Lophiiformes
Cirrhitidae
Chaetodon
Pomacanthidae
Acanthuridae
Centrarchidae
Plectorhinchus
Sciaenidae
Epigonoidei
Paratrachinoidei
Sparidae
Gender's just a state of gonads
Kyphosidae
Terapontidae
Serraniformes
Sculpins go wild
Turkey-lion-butterfly-scorpion-zebra
Knocked off the perch (Taxon of the Week: Percidae)
Zeioigadiformes
Percopsiformes
Elopomorpha
More Really Ugly Fish
It's a moray Friday
The surprisingly mysterious eels
Holostei
Sarcopterygii
Dipnomorpha
Tetrapoda
Some history of the history of tetrapods
Temnospondyli
Taxon of the Week #3: Rana
Sooglossidae: Deja vu all over again
Relict frog sex
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Reptiliomorpha
Lepospondyli
Synapsida
Therapsida
Dicynodontia
Cynodontia
Mammaliaformes
Mammalia
Reptilia
Captorhinidae
Ichthyosauria
The tuna-lizards
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Because it's Friday...
Tortoise resurrection
Small lizards of South America
Southern snakes at sea
Anole, anole, anole, anole
Obama's lizard? Not so fast
Archosauromorpha
Archosauria
Parareptilia
Acoela
Our faceless cousins?
Gutless wonders
Orthonectida
Name that Bug: Stoecharthrum giardi
Archaea
The nature of 'Nanoarchaeum'
Eubacteria
Taxon of the Week: Pick from a wide range of pathogens
Reference review: Cutting up the excess
Taxon of the Week: Life in mycolates
Standing the heat
Epsilon of the deeps—coming to an organ system near you
Life before it had facial features
Hyphae without nuclei: filamentous bacteria
The diversity of slime moulds
Streps
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Pathogens, or more than pathogens? (Taxon of the Week: Aeromonas)
The endosymbiotic hammer strikes again
Bacteria, too, grow old and die
The attack of mega-matrix
The Nostocaceae: tangled filaments
The Rhodospirillales: it's photosynthesis, but not as you know it
Mammalia
Australosphenida
Insectivores: possibility of puggles (Taxon of the Week: Australosphenida)
Eutriconodonta
Trechnotheria
Boreosphenida
A little bit mole-ish in the Miocene
Metatheria
The mysterious name of Queen Lestoros
Eutheria
Life in the Palaeocene—we don't need no Placentalia?
More mysterious Palaeogene eutherians
Asioryctitheria
Cimolesta
Placentalia
Afrotheria
Xenarthra
The swimming sloth
Lipotyphla
Meet the Shrews (Taxon of the Week: Soricidae)
Chiroptera
Little yellow bats
Cetferungulata
Taxon of the Week: Phocidae
Taxon of the Week: Capra—the goats
The camel that walked on two legs
The whale that looked like a walrus
Horns and guts
West Indian raccoons: from endangered endemics to invasive introductions
Moustache whales
Three-quarters of a century, and we still care about a dead horse
Support your local taxonomy
Fantastic Mr Fox
Dog's life
The uglier side of the family (Taxon of the Week: Ceratomorpha)
Wolf and wolf and wolf and wolf and cub
"Creodonts": carnivores by association
How the badger became (Taxon of the Week: Meles thorali)
More than just Moby (Taxon of the Week: Physeteridae)
The sad, sad story of Physeter
The wolf in time
Euarchontaglires
Taxon of the Week: Anthropoidea
Taxon of the Week: Marmotini
Taxon of the Week: Apodemus (no pliers)
Taxon of the Week: Nothing to do with teapots
Sacred monkeys
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
Name the Bug: Anomalurus pelii auzembergeri
The parrot of King Charles I
Beginning to grasp things (Taxon of the Week: Euprimateformes)
There he goes! (Taxon of the Week: Indriidae)
Squirrels and cedar-mice (Taxon of the Week: Sciuridae)
Old men of the woods
Origins - a day in the Broom Room
Groundhogs, woodchucks and other big squirrels
Beaver fever
Zhelestidae
Multituberculata
The rise and fall of the multi-cusped
Archosauria
Suchia
Pterosauria
The ornithocheirids: misunderstood giants
Dinosauria
The Top Ten dinosaurs—Triceratops beats Tyrannosaurus
Top Ten follow-up
Dinosaurs all over the place
A question of availability
Sauropodomorpha
Most unbelievable organisms evah!
The anchisaurs: near-lizards or near-sauropods?
Theropoda
Neotheropoda
Ceratosauria
Tetanurae
Spinosauroidea
Allosauroidea
Coelurosauria
Tyrannosauroidea
Maniraptora
Avialae
A new stem-bird and publication in the digital age
Ornithothoraces
Ornithurae
Aves
A frustrating giant bird
How irritable is this bird?
Bird evolution—problems with Science
More from the "They don't write papers like they used to" files
Neoaves
Metaves
The voice of the turtle (Taxon of the Week: Streptopelia)
Charadriiformes
Jonathon Livingstone's cousin (Taxon of the Week: Sterna)
Name the bug #8: Prosobonia cancellata
Anomalogonatae
Cariamae
Psittaciformes
Reference review: Parrots in the early days of molecular analysis
A King among parrots
Passeriformes
Suboscines
Taxon of the Week: Cotinginae—Neotropical and fabulous!
Menurae
Euoscines
Meliphagoidea
Passerida
Petroicidae
Regulus
Passeroidea
Products of kinky inter-species sex
Birds of the sun
Muscicapoidea
The tomb of the unknown honeyeater
Sylvioidea
Name the Bug #7—Apalopteron familiare hahasima
More than four and twenty blackbirds
Corvoidea
Yet another passerine 'family'
On hybrid birds
The shrikes of the south
Whistling for whistlers
Orthonychidae
Ptilonorhynchidae
Falconidae
Cathartae
Accipitridae
Coliiformes
Strigiformes
Trogonidae
Coraciiformes
Piciformes
Bucerotes
Otididae
Cuculidae
Grues
Oh crake (Taxon of the Week: Amaurornis)
Cranes off the rails (Taxon of the Week: Grues)
Musophagidae
Banana-eating birds that don't eat bananas
Natatores
The stately herons
Boobies
Galloanserae
The Hawaiian superducks
A pathetic plea for recognition, and a platypus-billed duck
Coscoroba
Palaeognathae
Taxon of the Week: Leg or breast?
Deinonychosauria
Oviraptorosauria
Ornithischia
Big horned lizards
Ceratopsids: a Cretaceous flash in the pan
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So...many...eukaryotes...
ReplyDeleteI actually burst out laughing when I hit the very bottom of this. Glad the archs and the bacteria got a mention at least!
On a more serious note - thats an impressively large list, and I look forward to seeing how many you've already filled in.
Despite the claims of prokaryote afficionados for supreme diversity, the number of named taxa is still vastly higher for eukaryotes than prokaryotes after all. :-P
ReplyDeleteas a hobbyist and long time reader, I have a few questions...
ReplyDeletequestion 1: Isn't this the same list you made on Palaeos? :) (o.k. I admit this question isn't serious...)
question 2: Why Panhexapoda instead of Pancrustacea?
question 3: Why so many gastropods?
question 4: Shouldn't Ammonites go under Cephalopods? I remember you had a blog on them
question 5: Why Cetferungulata instead of Cetartiodactyla?
question 6: Why Calceria and Hyalospongiae instead of Hexactinellida or Demospongiae or Porifera?
question 7: I thought you had a lot more Cnidaria blogs, did I hallucinate?
question 8: This is an impressive list, covering a vast biological space. When do you get your degree? Why haven't you already? :D (o.k. this isn't really a serious question either...)
Isn't this the same list you made on Palaeos?
ReplyDeleteComes from the same place, effectively. ;)
Why Panhexapoda instead of Pancrustacea?
They're both there. Panhexapoda is a subgroup of Pancrustacea.
Why so many gastropods?
Because the world is home to a lot of gastropods. The question you should be asking is "why so few insects?"—because my coverage of insects is still a little rudimentary.
Shouldn't Ammonites go under Cephalopods? I remember you had a blog on them
Read the intro to the index, where I point out that links are still being added to the page.
Why Cetferungulata instead of Cetartiodactyla?
"Cetferungulata" is a larger group, also including carnivorans and perissodactyls.
Why Calceria and Hyalospongiae instead of Hexactinellida or Demospongiae or Porifera?
Hexactinellida and Demospongiae are subgroups of Hyalospongiae (sponges producing siliceous spicules). Most people doubt that Porifera are monophyletic but there's still a lot of work needs doing in this area.
When do you get your degree? Why haven't you already?
The dean still has to sign the bit of paper saying I get it.
I was thinking of adding a page indexing various protist-related posts from around the internet -- interested? Partly this is to avoid double-posting because there's only so many protist aficionados for the vast galaxy of diversity therein...
ReplyDeleteLike I'm going to refuse to be linked to ;)
ReplyDeleteI was a bit confused by the "Wot? No Inverts?" until a way into it. You do know that it was a proto-psychological term for homosexuals?
ReplyDelete1897 H. ELLIS Stud. Psychol. Sex I. 12 Caesar was proud of his physical beauty, and like many modern inverts he was accustomed carefully to shave his skin.
Quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary.
I am looking to utilize 'systematics' as a start point for 'life' structure and processes..that are carried along [with some changes expected] that continue to be 'life' processes, but may present a trend of conditions, limitations, etc. useful to an understanding of 'aging' or death [from within]. Any databases on this subject?
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I'm afraid that I have no idea what you mean.
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