#HORG

[redluminous]

A delightfully accurate depiction of Palpatophora glyphodorsalis from Another Crab's Treasure (2024), making this the third video game I've seen to feature an occlupanid.

[fidgetspringer]

Completely unable to encounter a bread clip without consulting HORG for an ID.

[teethburglar]

Just updated my specimen board!

[bread-tab]

[it-was-dead-when-i-found-it]

Finally finished putting together my Occlupanid specimens! I've also got multiple ones of the more common Occlupanids in the region

[apricotbuncakes]

LOOKIE! I found what I believe is a Toxodentidae (or a "Curved Tooth")!!!

I am sending him to the HORG soon!

I named him Andrew :3

[semiotomatics]

Occlupanopsida: An Emerging Taxonomy

The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group has received numerous reports from the field regarding what appear to be small tabs of recycled cardboard in the shape of occlupanids. Several contributors have dutifully submitted samples of these paper-pulp impostors to the HORG office for study.

Despite their uncanny similarity to occlupanids in form and function, exhaustive experiments have demonstrated that these cardboard tags are composed entirely of biodegradable wood fiber, unlike the nearly indelible petrochemicals that characterize phylum Plasticae.

While the relationship of these mimics to kingdom Microsynthera can be debated, their plastic-less nature would inexorably place them in a phylum well outside that of Plasticae generally, and the Occlupanida in particular. While generally they may be commonly referred to as cartonalia, our HORG Board of Taxonomy, ever ready to put their cladistical stamp on the situation, have proposed a new taxonomic system based on the International Code of Nomenclature for plants. HORG places these cartoniform species under Class Occlupanopsida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread, -opsida=appearance of) in Division Chartoniphyta, part of Kingdom Papyrae.

The majority of the Occlupanopsida have been sighted in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. In each instance field researchers report that they are supplanting occlupanids in growing numbers, and are thought to directly compete for the same resources and biomes that occlupanids have long held. Though these species are from an entirely different Kingdom and Phylum altogether, HORG has nonetheless dedicated itself to cataloging and studying this rapidly developing phenomenon of occlupanid-like entities. We entreat any researchers who find new forms of cartonalia to send in samples for further examination.

the pre-eminent experts in Holotypic Occlupanids are, as always, at the top of their game

[thefallencomet]

This may be a member of Palpatophora glyphodorsalis, not sure yet. If it is this might be the first documentation of this species in North America? Not certain yet.

EDIT: as a friend pointed out to me this is more likely the common Palpatophora utiliformis, which is practically ubiquitous worldwide. This is a garden variety occlupanid.

[varietyshiw]

ah… corrugatid

[butcharyastark]

thinking about that web weaving post about max compared to pearls. thinking about max's quote to woodes rogers about the black pearl dowry gift with "this? comes from nowhere. that is its virtue." thinking about max and identity and secret pasts and the way she never talks about her history, only her future.

[beevhs]

Bread clips. The bread clip identification registry place, I love them. They are great.

What more could you need then to know about bread-clip imposters?

[chibelial]

Back on my bullshit made a lil Dagoth video

[teethburglar]

Found on a walk. It’s fully cardboard. I have never encountered something like it. Is this a false occlupanid?

[cellarspider]

I was interested in this, so I went and looked up the topic.

Ingestion in adults is usually associated with psychological and developmental disorders, severe vision impairment, dementia, alcohol intoxication, and accidental inclusion of bread clips in food prep (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3096135/, cw medical gore, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1285589/?page=1). People with dentures are also more likely to swallow them, because dentures cover large portions of the of the mouth, limiting the ability to feel foreign objects that have ended up in food (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1231174/, cw medical gore). In most of these cases the patient is unable to remember the incident, and so can't provide any details on why they're experiencing symptoms stemming from foreign body ingestion, which can begin anywhere from days to months after the incident.

Bread clips don't always show up on CT scans, but when they are identifiable, knowing the shape of a foreign object and how the digestive tract has reacted to it can be very important for successful and uncomplicated surgical removal. Even successful removals often involve a bowel resection. A lot of the literature on the subject calls for the use of acid-digestible bread clips (ex. cardboard), or tape closures.

I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years

It’s full of plastic bread clips

It’s for Science

[it-was-dead-when-i-found-it]

obtusamaxilla azureus

Got two specimens in this one! The other went in the Occlupanid Enclosure