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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of Smily Salamander:
I like the amusing typo in the file name: should be "Slimy", not "Smily", Salamander!
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Image of Nasua narica":
This is Nasua narica (Nasua nasua has a different facial pattern and occurs only in South America)
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Image of Nasua narica":
Nasua nasua has a different facial pattern and is found only in South America"
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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of Distribution in North America:
This article contains no text!
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Hydra":
It appears that the first word of this article should be "Hydra", not "Cnidaria".
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Hydrochoeris hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766)":
See comments on bottom of ITIS page for this species: " The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1998, Opinion 1894) ruled that Hydrochoerus is first available from Brisson, 1762, so it takes priority over Hydrochaeris Brünnich, 1772
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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of Brief Summary:
White-tailed Deer is not "a large raptor"!
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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of File:Balsamocarpon brevifolium-PhotoJimenez.JPG:
ncluded on Wikimedia as a "favorite food of" Chinchilla lanigera. Despite the old adage that "you are what you eat", this plant is not, in fact, a Chinchilla.
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Leo Shapiro commented on "File:Southern right whale.jpg":
I'm far from a whale expert, but the appearance and geographic location of this whale don't match Gray Whale, although they do match Southern Right Whale, which is how the image was originally tagged on Wikimedia Commons. I'm not clear how the image ended up tagged and Trusted on EOL as 2 quite distinct whale species.
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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of Scientific Name:
Rating system is failing to change order of articles on the page so hiding this one is the only way to prevent it from being the article displayed under the Overview tab (which displays first article from Brief Summary, when available), for which it is clearly not the best choice.
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Image of Raphanus sativus":
Wrong kingdom... Actually a Boletus fungus?
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Brief Summary":
This was a test that should now be deleted--hiding is next best option
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Brief Summary":
This was a test that should now be deleted--hiding is next best option.
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Image of Anolis carolinensis":
Clearly not an Alligator! I think this is Anolis carolinensis, but I'll wait for someone more certain to move it.
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Leo Shapiro commented on an older version of Phoronis muelleri Selys-Longchamps, 1903:
Some molecular phylogenetic studies have indicated that phoronids are a subgroup of brachiopods--I assume this is why phoronid images are showing up on the brachiopod page
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Allium ursinum L.":
The Discover Life map is obviously very incomplete--it can only be as complete as its data sources. DL welcomes high quality point data to include in its maps. My German is extremely limited so it's hard for me to study the site hosting the map you linked to--does it seem like a source that might have point data they would be willing to share with DL for mapping?
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Cycliophora":
Actually, there are several known species and apparently some cryptic species as well, but as far as I know no one is talking about more than a handful.
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Leo Shapiro commented on "Dendrobates tinctorius (Cuvier, 1797)":
Actually, D. azureus is now being treated as a color form of D. tinctorius (see AmphibiaWeb entry under Details tab)
