The Joker of Spiders and other newly discovered species

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A census has estimated that a decade ago There are 7.77 million animal species on our planet, of which about a million are classified. There is therefore much to discover, and every year a large number of our neighbors that we did not even know is described is described. Some are not precisely discreet in their way of appearing at the world, although their elusive habits make them little visible: it is the case of ‘Loureedia Phoenixi’, a variety of ‘Velvet Spider’ that was identified in Iran last year. The discoveries, from the Finnish University of Turku, saw it for the first time in a photo of social networks, because logically someone had captured his beautiful chromatism and then had to mobilize local naturalists to find a copy on the ground. They baptized her ‘Phoenixi’ because he reminds Joker, the character played by Joaquin Phoenix. We could say that it is a double famous spider, because the gender, ‘Loureedia’, pays tribute to the musician Lou, for what the ‘Velvet Spiders’ (Velvet Spiders) think about their group The Velvet Underground.

An iridescent snake on the road

There are countries, such as Vietnam, where discoveries of new species are still produced at a very fast pace. One of the most recent is the ‘Achalinus Zugorum’, A dark and iridescent snake whose skin shades between blue and green. The gender, ‘Achalinus’, indicates that it has a very specific decision of the scales (instead of overlapping with each other, as in most Ophidians, they are placed independently), while the ‘Zugorum’ the reptile caretaker of the Smithsonian Institute, George Zug, George Zug, Patricia Zug. The scientists who found her They devoted weeks to investigate streams and forests of the Vietnamese province of Ha Giang, to collect information about reptiles and amphibians, and during a car they were found in the middle of a roadAs if I had waited for them.

That’s not hello and goodbye

Among the animals described last year there are also mammals, even primates such as Popa Langur (‘Trachypithecus Stern’), a fence that lives in the jungles of Myanmar. This ‘new’ monkey, about eight kilos, is characterized by the white rings around the eyes, the black gloves that finish their limbs and a longer tail than his body. Yours is actually more a reunion, because More than a hundred years ago, when Myanmar was called Burma and was part of the British Empire, copies were collected that were stored in the London Natural History Museum. The scientists responsible for fieldwork first gave bones that genetically matched those old specimens of the museum and eventually managed About two hundred people can be left, depending on different threats, So maybe this meeting will be an unfortunate ‘hello and goodbye’.

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Museum files hide surprises. For example, the discoverers of a new ‘Salamandra Worm’ wanted to compare it with similar copies and also went to the Natural History Museum, where They realized that one of the copies of the collection was a different species without describing, Baptized now as ‘Ecuadorian Oedipine’. Of course, of all the recordings of 2020, the most unlikely is certain of the ‘pseudoacanthocephalus goodmani’, a worm that parasite the amphibians, because the travel schedule that followed it was under the gaze of scientists could no longer be Rocombolesco. A female toad woman slid into the luggage of a tourist during a stay in Mauricio and finally flew to Cambridge, where she survived a washing machine cycle. His host then discovered it between clothing (he would be shiny) and delivered it to an amphibious and reptile protection center, where the Sapita defined. And finally … there were the worms!