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Steve Haddock commented on "Top view - whole animal":
How do we mark it so genus Ctenophora doesn't show up in the pages for Phylum Ctenophora? I don't want to untrust it, but would like to remove those associations, in bulk.
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Jamie McMillan commented on "Top view":
Costa is curved about 2/3 way down, so I think this is Dingy Footman, E.griseola/griseolum.
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of :
@Priscila Chaverri: Yes, there are a number of these confusing statements on EOL images from my website. It's not obvious from my current page (click on "More Info") how this arose. I don't know whether it was originally wrong on my website, or if it went wrong when EOL's spider scraped it. Certainly there are several places where EOL's spider was confused by punctuation (eg place names) and this maybe another of those - the original could well have had a comma: "Geoglossum cookeanum, covering ascocarp"
It's 2 years since EOL harvested my content. We agreed a joint background project to build a more direct route and harvesting was suspended. Unfortunately neither side had time to progress it, but we're now hoping to move it forward this winter and this should correct such errors.
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of Byssostilbe stilbigera and Byssostilbe stilbigera:
@Priscila Chaverri: Keith Seifert (who synonymised them) now considers Blistum ovalisporum to be distinct from Byssostilbe stilbigera. (K. Seifert, pers comm. 31/8/05)
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Jamie McMillan commented on "Malcolm Storey":
Malcolm, I can't find any photos of Beautiful China-Mark on EOL in media. I look under Nymphula stagnata (Donovan, 1806) for which name you are the only source credited - although I think it is still the accepted UK name, and most of the records are mapped in the UK. The other one is N. nitidula which looks the same, but all the records are continental. Which do you think is the accepted name now, or is there a fight about it?
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of Byssostilbe stilbigera and Byssostilbe stilbigera:
Synonym of Byssostilbe stilbigera
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
@Katja Schulz: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh also place Hypocreaceae in Plantae! That surely went out of fashion a long time before the 1990's.
I guess herbaria might use informal classifications for convenient access to and storage of specimens (relating to room, cupboard, shelf and box names), rather than attempting to strictly model philogeny. Of course changes to the classification are a lot more time consuming if you have to physically reorganise specimens.
EOL perhaps ought to have some way of downplaying informal classifications.
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of :
This description is confusing. It is not "Geoglossum cookeanum covering ascocarp." It is really "Hypomyces papulasporae covering living ascocarp of Geoglossum cookeanum"
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of :
This description is confusing. It is not "Geoglossum cookeanum covering ascocarp." It is really "Hypomyces papulasporae covering living ascocarp of Geoglossum cookeanum"
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Katja Schulz commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
@Priscila Chaverri: Thanks, we'll request that Biopix & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh update their taxonomies.
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
@Katja Schulz: This a taxonomic "view" that has been discontinued. Before the 1990s, the Hypocreales consisted of just one family Hypocreaceae. Then the order was split into several families and Nectria was placed in Nectriaceae.
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Katja Schulz commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
@Priscila Chaverri: Some EOL content partners place Nectria in Hypocreaceae. Is this outright wrong or an alternative taxonomic view?
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
@Malcolm Storey: Hi Malcolm, Thanks. I see that now. And at close up it does look like the anamorph of N. cinnabarina. It is just that those images with the contaminant spores are confusing and that hopefully users will understand that it is not typical. Thanks for pointing it out. I am starting to learn how to navigate through EoL.
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
Hi Priscila,
Did you click on the "more Info" link? That takes you to the original collection of photographs. The second one down shows a few perithecia around the bases of some of the conidiomata.
Don't be confused by the dusting of black Massaria spores.
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
It is difficult to tell exactly what this species is but certainly it is not Nectria cinnabarina.
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Priscila Chaverri commented on an older version of Image of Nectria cinnabarina:
This belongs in Nectria, Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of Pyrausta aurata:
Hi Jamie, I've had another look in Goater and asked around. Yes, you're right.
Many thanks for taking the trouble to point it out.
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Malcolm Storey commented on "What are the biological correlates of mimicry relationships?":
Mimicry is a very wide subject. It can be body-parts that mimic, not just whole organisms: orchid flowers mimic female bees, eye-spots on insect wings, tropical leaves grow butterfly egg mimics to prevent oviposition, - and domestic dogs have evolved big heads and eyes to mimic babies :) . It can be across kingdoms or within a single species (immature male mammals mimic females to avoid male aggression - or is it just the they aren't yet producing testosterone? - calling something mimicry is usually a post hoc interpretation).
Mimicry also merges into camouflage.
Mimicry is a three-way interaction. It requires an enforcer. There has to be some organism (usually a predator) to create the selective advantage. Mimicry is in the eye of the beholder!
I'm sure we're only aware of a fraction of it: scent, sound/vibration and ultra-violet colouration are beyond our sensors.
Guess what I'm saying is that the project probably needs a restricted definition of mimicry, eg two species where the individuals, at some stage in their life-cycles, resemble each other, to human eyes, more than would be expected from their genetic similarity.
But that definition is highly subjective, and our perception of the expected dissimilarity has been exaggerated by "dismimicry" where two closely-related species that use visual cues in mate selection are disproportionately different - eg most of the large brightly-coloured insects that we are familiar with.
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Malcolm Storey commented on an older version of Image of Selenia tetralunaria:
Actually both "more info" and "view source" still work. But you're right, it's time I revisited harvesting with Jen. The exchange-file project died when Eli left.
