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drew one species from every order in the phylum porifera

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Week of Weevil: Eucalyptus Snout beetle/Eucalyptus weevil/Gum Tree weevil (Gonipterus gibberus)

This little Weevil is from Australia! It eats and breeds on eucalyptus (a tree from Australia that's also called Tasmanian blue gum). It is 13 mm long and hard to distinguish from its close relatives; because of this, they share a lot of the same names and are often confused for one another. In most parts of the world, they are invasive pests that come along with eucalyptus trees. They were actually thought to be G. scutellatus until 2012, when they did a DNA analysis on the pests and discovered that none of them were true G. scutellatus. The Gonipterus gibberus populations in South America were also misidentified and are another different kind of weevil. All the published work on Gonipterus gibberus in South America (about things like life cycle, hosts, and more) prior to 2012 is incorrect and actually describing G. pulverulentus.

Image: Right side up Gonipterus gibberus, dorsal view, upside down Gonipterus gibberus

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today's invertebrates....................acanthopleura spinosa and leptochiton rugatus

these two chitons are world famous yonk parabolers with vastly different tastes yet very similar audiences

one of them is evil and makes evil metallic wunks with loud, dark colours and strong vibrational qualities. it eats sour foods and drinks soda of yuck

the other is nice and composes soft and calming inks with its nice synthaciid instruments. it eats sugary foods and drinks soda of milk

despite these massive differences, they are the greatest of friends!

glorpiness rating: he was a goth ballet she did

first photograph by Bill & Mark Bell (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

second photograph by passiflora4 (CC BY-NC 4.0)

always expect posts with 2 invertebrates to have long descriptions

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Most entoprocts are immobile colonial animals but the group loxosomella are mobile individuals and some of them like loxosomella bifida walk around with 2 feets

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wyd when my gang pull up?? 😈😈‼️‼️

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today's invertebrate.................camposcia retusa

she's covered herself in so many things that I couldn't even tell if she was an animal at first glance!

apparently she's the creator of a new style of true fashion called 'voynich derailia' which involves covering yourself in so many things that you look like an unreadable blob. it's fabulous and protects you from the sun when it gets angry!

also sometimes her friends like to climb on her back and pretend to be nomads on a golem-like steed

glorpiness rating: 🔗 hup

first photograph by lgs1836 (劉佳勳) (CC BY-NC 4.0)

second and third photographs by alwansyaah (Alwan Syah) (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

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today's invertebrate................isostichopus badionotus

he may look like a sad lump of dough, but this echinoderm is actually a world renowned baker and merchant that makes soft biscuits and sells wads of fine detritus

but anyone whose eaten his biscuits will know that they are actually just clumps of detritus, and that his detritus is actually made up of ground up biscuits

this is a very confusing business model that he claims will boost his sales twofold (it's having the exact opposite effect)

glorpiness rating: evil fish 𓆝 𓆟 𓆝 𓆟

photograph by Kevin Bryant (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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Gonatus antarcticus footage drop!

Today's cephalopod has finally come out of hiding!!!!

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today's invertebrate...................cestum veneris

he sends you with great gelatinous messages on your mails inboxes because he sends you with great gelatinous messages on your mails inboxes because he sends you with great gelatinous messages on your mails inboxes because he sends you with great gelatinous messages on your mails inboxes because he sends you with great gelatinous messages on your mails inboxes because he 1234 ♡

glorpiness rating: an ■•□○■○•○●○□°•°○••○• d

first and second to fourth (different links) photographs by lcolmer (CC BY-NC 4.0)

I only featured 7 invertebrates this month and that greatly sucks

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↑ What it's like to have best friends

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A twirling tangle of things. The horror of change, pretty and strange.

Prints of this piece are available! https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/starfielddomicile/protoplasmic-miasma/

 I’m running a 25% discount on inprnt until December 18th (use code YJ2Y3K)

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Animals from Tira 292b

Original project by Biblaridion

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interview with angelocaris

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Does anyone know this anamal!! I don't know this one! I found several in pond water and they all have the same lumpy body with a pointy tail. Up close they are completely covered in cilia like a flatworm, so I guess they might be a kind of flatworm. But maybe they're a kind of something else?

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