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Emerita analoga (Decapoda: Hippidae)
... that although the
Pacific sand crab
can only crawl and burrow backwards
(pictured)
, it can also
tread water
?
... that when the
extinct
forester moth
Neurosymploca? oligocenica
was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
... that the
extinct
Hydriomena? protrita
was the first
geometer moth
to be described from the American
fossil record
?
... that
Praunus flexuosus
, the first
mysid shrimp
ever to be described, may have been transported to North America during World War II?
... that the seeds of the European sedge
Carex pilulifera
may be
dispersed
by the ant
Myrmica ruginodis
?
... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus
Dominickus
was not noticed until
entomologist
Norman Tindale
was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?