drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8119280... #3572 - Fissidens sp. - Pocket Moss A cosmopolitan genus of mosses with almost 500 species, although the division of the genus into subgenera and sections appears to be a matter of ongoing argument.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8119140... Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Plants Pt. 1 So many plants recorded this year - I’ve had to break it up over a couple of posts. Unfortunately a large proportion of the flowering plants are introduced weeds and garden escapees.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8119071... MONOTREMES Tachyglossidae Western Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus acanthion 1

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8119001... Unsurprisingly most of these have common names - it’s not like ornithologists have to come up with something for the gazillionth tiny parasitic wasp. I didn’t record many myself - my cameras weren’t set up for telescope shots.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8118722... Not including any of the ones that evolved four limbs - those will be coming later. ACTINOPTERYGII Acropomatiformes Monodactylidae Western Pomfred Schuettea woodwardi 1

Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Other Marine Invertebrates CNIDARIA - ANTHOZOA Actiniaria - Actiniidae Waratah Anemone Actinia tenebrosa 1

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8117399... #3571 - Peronella sp. - Pink Sand Dollar

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8117328... #3570 - Brachidontes ustulatus A mussel found on Western Australian and South Australian shorelines. Alive, the shells are purple with dark brown, almost black, bands, but fade to white after death. Port Kennedy Scientic Park, Perth

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8117259... #3569 - Phasianotrochus sp. - Kelp Shell Named for their resemblance to Phasianella (pheasant shells) and for being in the Top Shell family, Trochidae.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116910... #3568 - Sunetta sp. The generic epithet is derived from the Tamil word “Sunetti” (சூனெட்டி), for the species collected for food there. First time I’ve come across a Tamil word in taxonomy.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116841... #3567 - Macroschisma munitum - Ridge-Backed Keyhole Limpet Distinguished from true limpets by the breathing hole or slit on top of the shell.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116770... #3566 - Euplica bidentata - Seagrass Dove Shell A small marine snail endemic to WA coastlines, frequently observed at night on seagrass blades while grazing on diatoms and other microscopic particles.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116701... #3565 - Maoricrypta immersa - Slipper Limpet One of nine species in the genus, which is found around New Zealand and Australia.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116632... #3564 - Tritia burchardi - Burchard’s Dogwhelk Scavenging Nassariid snails, found on coastlines around the southern half of Australia, and Northern New Zealand. Point Peron, Perth

Someday...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116492... Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Marine Molluscs (and two freshwater species) Weighted towards species that have hard shells, and wash up on beachs, and only those observations where three or more people agreed on the ID.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116353... Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Other Terrestrial Invertebrates

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116283... #3563 - Neomolgus sp. A genus of Snout Mite, most often reported from North America and Europe, but found elsewhere as well. Like other Bdellids, predatory on other small invertebrates. Folly Pool Wetland, Perth.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116144... #3562 - Oncocephalus sp. A Cosmopolitan genus of Assassin Bug, with at least 130 species. This one is still a juvenile, judging by the wing buds. Folly Pool Wetlands, Perth.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116074... #3561 - Melangyna ambusta A small hoverfly with dark red eyes, found in SE and SW Australia. Kalamunda NP, Perth

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8116004... #3560 - Rhytidoponera violacea - Purple Pony Ant Endemic to Western Australia, where it is a keystone species for in kwongan heathland and other habitats.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8115864... #3559 - Aphidius sp. The Waterbird Conservation Group gave us access to a small wetland reserve that I’d never known was even there, despite driving past it on the adjacent freeway hundreds of times a year. This was one of the species observed.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8115656... #3558 - Chlorops sp. Type genus of the family, which is large, widespread, and usually black or yellow. Point Peron, Perth.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8115586... #3557 - Aeolothrips sp. Predaciously patroling the Pigface at Point Peron.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8115516... #3556 - Stigmacros sp. I have no idea what the etymology of that name is. Small Formicine ants endemic to Australia. There are at least 39 valid species in the genus, which can be found in leaf litter, on trees, or open ground. They are generalist feeders.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8115447... #3555 - Scatella sp. A genus of shore flies in the shore fly family Ephydridae. There are at least 140 described species in the genus.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114610... Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Insects As with the Arachnids, only the Research Grade IDs - a small fraction of the insect species recorded over the weekend. And many lack common names.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114750... #3554 - Fam. Scelionidae, Subf. Teleasinae Previously considered a subfamily of the Platygastridae, now a subfamily of the Scelionidae, which was ALSO considered a subfamily of the Platygastridae.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114261... #3553 - Nunciella sp. Compactly-built harvestmen with massive chelicerae, found in the damper southern parts of Australia. Kalamunda NP, Perth

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114192... #3552 - Baiami sp. A genus of Australian Intertidal Spiders (Desidae - although only a few of the genera in the family actually live intertidally).

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114123... #3551 - Aname sp. - Wishbone Spider Spotted while running moth trapping and a night walk for the BioBlitz, at the edge of Kalamunda NP on the Darling Escarpment.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8114052... #3550 - Maratus speculifer - Black-mirror Peacock Spider Another Peacock Spider from the Port Kennedy Scientific Park - this one is only found along beaches in the vicinity of Perth.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8113983... #3549 - Maratus pavonis - Common Peacock Spider The big naturalist event for October was the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - I got about 327 species, myself, over the weekend, but many are species I’ve covered before.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8113914... Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 - Greater Perth - Arachnids or, at least, ones where ID was confirmed to research grade. That weighs towards familiar enough species that they actually have common names.

Perfect

Putting together a talk on Mass Poisonings for Swancon50. My previous talks for Swancon have covered some horrible stuff, but MAN is there a growing list of business owners i want to dig up, resurrect, and set on fire.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8111196... #3535 - Riccia asprella? - Pale Crystalwort? Possibly, at least - but it doesn’t exactly much the ones from the eastern states. Might even be a new species!

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8110359... #3534 - Phaeoceros sp. - Hornwort ‘Yellow-horn’. Hornworts are a Division of non-vascular land plants with an elongated horn-like diploid sporophyte at some points of the year, and a flattened green gametophyte stage that only contains one copy of the genome.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8107224... #3533 - Occiperipatoides gilesii As it happens, less than an hour before I took these photos, somebody at the Bioblitz asked me where they could find Velvet Worms, and I had to tell ‘somewhere less dry than Julimar’, which I felt was good advice -

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8106108... #3532 - Stereum illudens ‘Tough, deceiving’. AKA Xylobolus illudens. A widespread crust fungus found on all continents except Antartica, which is noticeably lacking the dead wood and leaf litter it feeds on. Julimar State Forest, WA

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8105621... #3531 - Heterotextus peziziformis Small wood-rotting fungi common in the SE of Australia, but less so in the SW.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8105550... #3530 - Byssomerulius corium - Netted Crust A common crust fungus first described as Thelephora corium by Cape Colony mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8105063... #3529 - Lycosa australicola - Arrowhead Wolf Spider A wolf spider endemic to the SW of Australia. I don’t have any other info on them, alas. Julimar State Forest, WA

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8104924... AKA Coastal burrowing scorpion or black sand scorpion. Originally described in 1861 by German naturalist and explorer Wilhelm Karl Hartwich ( or Hartwig ) Peters.

How can I celebrate the joyous news re Masterplan ?! I've made a donation to Film Is Fabulous to aid and support the work they do :) #DoctorWho #DaleksMasterplan

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh look what just showed up at the webcam in the Namib Desert!

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8104366... #3527 - Zaprochilus australis - Australian Twig-mimicking Katydid One of Australia’s stick-insect-like pollen-and-nectar-feeding katydids. Very hairy for a katydid. They have long narrow heads for sticking deep into flowers.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8104226... #3526 - Nisista serrata - Serrated Crest-Moth Back in September I helped do a BioBlitz in Julimar State Forest, a very large patch of remaining woodland NE of Perth, and unfortunately threatened by a proposed mine that will leave a 600m deep open pit on one side -