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Mildly disagree, vascular plants get way more attention than most non-vertebrate animals (still right about fungi though)
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Alright, now which taxonomist had the bright idea to call this plant Viburnum bitchiuense 
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I feel like Taxonomy has easter eggs all over like this.
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The face I make when I’m across the lab watching an undergrad performing a procedure independently for the first time.
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Context –
Image 1: In the movie Wayne’s World, the titular character says “A sphincter says what?” to confuse someone so that they say “What?” – implying that they’re a sphincter and embarrassing themselves. A sphincter, for those unfamiliar, is “a ring-shaped muscle that relaxes or tightens to open or close a passage or opening in the body.” with the anus a common example.
Image 2: Pearlfish are marine fish (Carapidae) that frequently live inside invertebrate hosts, including sea cucumbers. There have been a few documentary-type videos released highlighting pearlfish entering, exiting, and resting with their heads outside of a sea cucumber’s anus.
Image 3: The sea urchin crab (Echinoecus pentagonus) is a species of crab found across the Indian and Pacific Oceans that makes its home in the anus of sea urchins. This species was featured as an iNaturalist Observation of the Week in 2016, which is how I learned about it.
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This is the future. In 3025 we’re all just going to be living in the buttholes of larger creatures.
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We will be the crab.
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Really happy this wasn’t for Dipterostemon capitatus, which has an equally confusing common name of unknown origin.
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