tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post836253944708346868..comments2023-12-24T07:02:43.274+08:00Comments on Catalogue of Organisms: Name the Bug # 50Christopher Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-24659341009333465832011-03-08T14:37:25.294+08:002011-03-08T14:37:25.294+08:00I'm giving three points to Neil, two points to...I'm giving three points to Neil, two points to Adam, one to biozcw. Unless, of course, someone just dropped a cup of pandan noodles.Christopher Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-23455703228495745762011-03-08T13:48:18.683+08:002011-03-08T13:48:18.683+08:00Damn, pipped again by a name change I was unaware ...Damn, pipped again by a name change I was unaware of. Symsagittifera roscoffensis used to be Convoluta roscoffensis.Adam Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03046084686097124394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-54637594818669138232011-03-08T06:52:32.087+08:002011-03-08T06:52:32.087+08:00Oh man. I sort of hate to be that guy, again, but...Oh man. I sort of hate to be that guy, again, but points is points. Unless I am mistaken this is <i>Symsagittifera</i> probably <i>S. roscoffensis</i> at least that species seems to have the most photos floating out there. Or is it <i>Simsagittifera</i>? I guess we'll know soon enough. <br /><br />Actually it seems only right to name-check the algal symbiont too, <i>Tetraselmis convolutae</i> since that is actually the more visible member here.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10293693723899837239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-20116340826373405732011-03-08T03:01:36.188+08:002011-03-08T03:01:36.188+08:00Paramecium bursaria, or sp. ?
Green PlanariaParamecium bursaria, or sp. ?<br />Green Planariajesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14917339421485787088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-84298496780757801222011-03-07T21:14:54.243+08:002011-03-07T21:14:54.243+08:00Yes I think biozcw has it right. It looks like Con...Yes I think biozcw has it right. It looks like Convoluta. So to grab a point or two. Convoluta isn't just any old flatworm its an acoel, a very ancient branch of eumetazoa that split away long before protostomes and deuterostomes went their separate ways. It lacks a coelom and a gut (the latter probably having been secondarily lost). As a gutless absorber of nutrients from photosynthetic symbionts in its tissues (a type of green alga that gives them their healthy green hue) they are like tiny versions of what some researchers evisage the ediacaran fauna to have been like.<br />Convoluta is well-known for forming these aggregates in intertidal sand flats.Adam Yateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03046084686097124394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5460788270738656369.post-62698314074744049532011-03-07T18:46:15.508+08:002011-03-07T18:46:15.508+08:00Convoluta sp.? A kind of flat worm that living ass...Convoluta sp.? A kind of flat worm that living associate with algae.biozcwnoreply@blogger.com