Catalogue of Organisms

An inordinate fondness for systematics

Mayflies in their Spring

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Armoured mayfly Baetisca obesa , photographed by Jason Neuswanger . Mayflies have occasionally put in an appearance here at CoO, most no...

The Prostigmata: Endless Forms

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Water mite, possibly Piona coccinea , photographed by Roger Key . Some groups are just so diverse that it is difficult just to know wher...
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Prototaxites Revisited

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Reconstruction of Prototaxites by Richard Bizley , used with permission. Richard Bizley has been kind enough to allow me to reproduce t...

The Wracks

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Bladder wrack Fucus vesiculosus , from here . 'Wrack' is one of those lovely old-fashioned words that doesn't get used anywh...
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The Dilleniaceae: Tropical Enigmas

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Flower and opened fruit of the 'red beech', Dillenia alata , from here . In recent years, molecular analyses of often very large...

A New Short-horned Elasmus

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Female Elasmus curticornis Gunawardene & Taylor 2012, newly out today! I can now officially claim not to be a one-trick pony: my fi...
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The Anchisaurs: Near-lizards or Near-sauropods?

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Reconstruction of Anchisaurus polyzelus by Brian Franczak . The 'prosauropods' are one group of dinosaurs that seemingly don...
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