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No way, this might replace my dragon chart for most helpful chart I’ve come across

We're clamposting, post a clam Austrovenus stutchburyi from the Banks Peninsula, Aotearoa

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8214835... #3818 - Panopea worthingtoni Named after Panopeia (or Panope), one of dozens of marine nymphs in Greek mythology. There’s dozens of extinct species in the genus, too, a fair number of them discovered in New Zealand.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8214706... #3817 - Cucullaea (Latiarca) worthingtoni The trinomial is derived from the Latin cucullus, meaning “hood” or “cap” referring to the prominent, hood-shaped beaks that curve over the hinge of the shell, the Latin latus - “broad” or “wide” & the Ark Clam genus Arca -

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8213605... #3816 - Lima colorata Labelled here as colorata, at least, although it’s likely that they and the living Lima zealandica are an evolutionary continuum. colorata was quite large compared to living Lima species, though, sometimes exceeding 10cm.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8213379... #3815 - Struthiolaria calcar There’s at least 20 extinct species in the genus, and some other extinct and living ones now placed in other genera, but just one living species left, which I’ll cover later since I found some later in the trip.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8212925... #3814 - Flemingastrea wollastoni A widespread genus of large extinct oyster, sometimes considered a subgenus of Ostrea -

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8212699... #3813 - Serripecten sp. One of New Zealand’s many fossil scallops. The genus is one of the most common in Eocene shallow-water limestone and greensand deposits, and is also known from Australia. Museum of the Vanished World, Duntroon, Aotearoa New Zealand

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8212019... #3812 - Magnatica planispira First described by paleontologist Henry Suter in 1917. The name means ‘Large Natica with a flattened spire".

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8211568... Casts of the earbones of one of the wide variety of fossil cetaceans from New Zealand, some of which were on display at the geology museum in Duntroon.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210504... Drhoz and Purrdence’s NZ Trip 2025-2026 : Waitaki Whitestone Geopark

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210296... #3810 - Pimelia indica “Oily one from India”. Photos by Pauli Kidd, when she was in the Thar Desert in Northern India late in 2024. In fact, that part of the world is the only place the beetle is known from.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210225... #3809 - Stenoptilia zophodactylus - Dowdy Plume Moth “Narrow Wings and Dusky Fingers”

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210157... #3808 - Senna pleurocarpa var. angustifolia - Fire Bush “Laxative plant with ribbed fruit and narrow leaflets” First formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Cassia pleurocarpa.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210086... #3807 - Grevillea olivacea - Olive Grevillea The specific epithet refers to the resemblance of the leaves to those of the European Olive.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8210016... #3806 - Solaenodolichopus pruvoti

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209808... #3805 - Athallia sp. - Firedots So-called because the thallus - the larger, connecting part of most lichens - is next to invisible, leaving the fruiting bodies apparently sitting by themselves on the substrate.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209459... #3804 - Fam. Neanuridae, Subfamily Pseudachorutinae - Short-legged Springtails A wonderful little earthling nomming on some tiny fungi in the hills east of Waroona, back in 2021.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209388... #3803 - Trymalium ledifolium - Star Buckthorn Another one growing around the granite outcrop at Sullivan Rock, SE of Perth. It also grows on clay, gravel, loam & sand, on limestone and laterite & on outcrops and dunes. It reaches 2.5 m high, under ideal conditions.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209319... #3802 - Conostylis pusilla “Very Small Conostylis”, and indeed it is, although otherwise similar to C. setigera. Both are bristly.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209250... #3801 - Conostylis caricina A couple more from years past that I’ve got IDs for now - at least I’ll be able to close a few dozen tabs on my desktop after I’ve written these ones up. Back to NZ stuff soon, I promise.

BUG FEET (well, velvet worm Occiperipatoides gillesii anyway)

That's definitely one way to turn things around.

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209179... #3800 - Phyllosphingia dissimilis - Buff-leaf Hawkmoth A brief detour from NZ to China, where my boss spotted this hawk moth at the Great Wall, some 50km north of the center of Beijing.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209110... #3799 - Stathmopoda horticola - Orchard Featherfoot A pair romantically entangled, anyway.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8209041... #3798 - Egretta sacra - Pacific Reef Heron The best photo I managed to get, because the people walking down the beach ahead of me scared it off. At least I got a good enough look at it with the binoculars to confirm the ID, beforehand.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8208273... #3797 - Phalacrocorax punctatus - Spotted Shag AKA pārekareka, and Stictocarbo punctatus for a while.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8208204... #3796 - Cookia sulcata - Cook’s Turban

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8208065... #3795 - Cystophora scalaris - Ladder Weed Endemic to NZ and the Chathams, where it grows to about 1m in length in the intertidal zone to just below the intertidal, on semi-sheltered reefs.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8207995... #3794 - Cystophora retroflexa A brown algae found on NZ and Australian coastlines, but preferring more sheltered reefs than other Cystophora species. Bushy Beach, Oamaru, Aotearoa New Zealand

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8207648... #3793 - Apium prostratum - Sea Celery AKA Tutae Koau. An edible herb found in coastal New Zealand, Australia, and Lord Howe Island.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8207438... #3792 - Lupinus arboreus - Coastal Bush Lupine AKA Yellow Bush Lupine and Tree Lupine.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8207229... #3791 - Tetragonia trigyna - Beach Spinach “Three-angled Four-Angle”, refering to the way the fruit usually contains three seeds, instead of the four common in the rest of the genus.

We definitely need a new term for this kind of person, and I propose “prolapsed Catholic.”

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

Pearlfish and sea cucumber. If you know...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8206601... #3790 - Lepidium sp. - Pepperweed Also known as peppercress, peppergrass, and pepperwort, and includes species such as garden cress. Lepidium is Greek for ‘small scale’, which may refer to the small scale-like fruit, or from a folk medicine usage to treat leprosy.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8206044... #3789 - Marchantia berteroana - Bonfire Liverwort Growing in the South Hill Cemetery and in a tunnel underneath the Steampunk museum in Oamaru.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8205626... #3788 - Pantomorus cervinus - Fuller’s Rose Weevil Terrible photos of a weevil who seems to have lost a jaw and both antennae at some point.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8205207... #3787 - Flavoparmelia soredians - Shadow Greenshield Lichen “yellowish-green shielded lichen with soredia” (powdery reproductive structures comprised of fungal hyphae wrapped around algal or cyanobacterial cells, scattered by many lichens to start new colonies)

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8204720... #3786 - Avena sativa - Oats The binomial means “cultivated food’. A grass cultivated for at least 12,000 years, and domesticated for about 3000. Particularly important in regions with cool, wet summers.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8204303... #3785 - Gaurax sp. Small Chloropid flies that seem to have a wider diet than many in the family -

Hello to another day spent guzzling water while surrounded by cooling fans. It's like being Gregor Samsa if he woke up to find himself transformed into a datacentre.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8204162... #3784 - Euonymus europaeus - Spindle A small tree with unusual fruit in the South Hill cemetery in Oamaru.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8203048... #3783 - Echium pininana - Giant Viper’s-Bugloss When we were driving to the holiday house in Oamaru, I got *very* distracted by this growing in the cemetery. I may have exclaimed “what the HELL is that?”.