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Lepidophthalmus turneranus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae)
... that
Cameroon
is named after the
crustacean
Lepidophthalmus turneranus
(pictured)
which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the
Wouri River
in the 15th century?
... that
Cyrba
spiders are said to be primitive because they retain characteristics that other
jumping spiders
lost?
... that
Austroplatypus incompertus
forms
colonies
in the
heartwood
of some
Eucalyptus
trees and was the first
beetle
recognized as
eusocial
?
... that the
porcelain crab
Pisidia longicornis
is sometimes found among
mussels
and
oysters
in European
fish markets
?
... that
molecular phylogenetics
suggests that
Pthirus gorillae
jumped from
gorillas
to
early humans
about 3.3 million years ago and
speciated
into the present day
pubic louse
?
... that although American
entomologist
Harry Hoogstraal
was an authority on
ticks
and
tick-borne diseases
, organisms bearing his name include
a squirrel
,
a gerbil
,
a snake
, and 200 other species?