#Soridia

[snakebusters]

Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® Issue 70, published 27 May 2024

There is one paper published across the whole volumes (64 pages). It is easiest to download the whole thing as one big file (first option / link below).Hoser, R. T. 2024. Sliding into scientific reality. Taxonomic changes to the Australian skink genus Lerista Bell, 1833 sensu lato, including the erection of 8 new genera, 19 new species and 5 new subspecies. ... Australasian Journal of Herpetology 70:1-64.Australasian Journal of Herpetology, Issue 70 Front Cover.Australasian Journal of Herpetology, Issue 70 Back Cover.Full Zoobank listing of all species, genera, family and taxonomic works of the Snakeman Raymond Hoser as of 27 May 2024 (over 2,000 entities named, over 1,300 species and subspecies).Copyright: All rights reserved.Australasian Journal of Herpetology ®ICZN Case 3601 ... ICZN Ruled on 30 April 2021 that all published issues of Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® is validly published according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and also that all new names within are valid and have priority over later names.Return to index for AJH Published IssuesPublished as part of the permanent scientific record. Intellectual property rights reserved. Australasian Journal of Herpetology ®Nomenclatural Acts in Australasian Journal of Herpetology ® Issue 70 Total number 32 Genus Group Aaah Hoser, 2024 Acdc Hoser, 2024 Ah Hoser, 2024 Get Hoser, 2024 Go Hoser, 2024 Labi Hoser, 2024 Oh Hoser, 2024 Tism Hoser, 2024 Species Group Aaah ngandatha Hoser, 2024 Aaah skink Hoser, 2024 Ah ha Hoser, 2024 Gaia arrernte Hoser, 2024 Gaia asgicondi Hoser, 2024 Gaia kunja Hoser, 2024 Gaia oomph Hoser, 2024 Gaia pitjantjatjara Hoser, 2024 Get intoit Hoser, 2024 Get it Hoser, 2024 Marrunisauria gurindji Hoser, 2024 Marrunisauria ngarinyin Hoser, 2024 Marrunisauria wam Hoser, 2024 Miculia ruficauda Hoser, 2024 Oh kay Hoser, 2024 Oh know Hoser, 2024 Oh phuk Hoser, 2024 Oh sheet Hoser, 2024 Oh yes Hoser, 2024 Soridia luxflavo Hoser, 2024 Spectrascincus hit Hoser, 2024 Spectrascincus thingi Hoser, 2024 Tychismia valentici Hoser, 2024 Tychismia wellsei Hoser, 2024

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tempted to make a lichen growth form tier list but in truth i appreciate all of them in their own ways.... fruiticose is lavish and interesting and genuinely kinda insane to me but only because i come from a place where all the lichens are crustose.... foliose lichens are also kinda wild and in my experience are laden with soridia on the edges and also sometimes can come out branched or tube-shaped or hairy on the edges which is wild, also i think its funny that they end up growing on top of each other on dense logs and stuff....crustose lichens have a special place in my heart because i grew up with them and i love how they cover the bark of trees and some of them are so flat you can barely tell its a lichen (Graphis scripta certified classic lichen moment)...... squamulose is a bit of a deep cut lichen moment but one of my favorite lichen species is squamulose (Psora decipiens ❤️💞🫶 spoiler alert: small and pink no less)......etc. just thinking about them today tbh

[shinysparklesapphires]

"puhuhuhu....puhuhuhuhu..."

twisted from Miyuki hoshizora and Bad End Happy (smile precure)

Luna

Name: Luna Jubeline

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 19

Dorm: Curetiel

Favorite Food: strawberry tart

Birthday: 2/10

Club: Equestrian

Unique Magic: Happy Smile

the ability to heal any wound, big or small, with a kiss (kinda like with steven in SU)

Sora

Name: Sora Jubeline

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 19

Dorm: Terrorvania (belongs to @terrovaniadorm)

Favorite Food: Mixed Fruit Tart

Birthday: 2/10

Club: Newspaper

Unique Magic: Bad End

anyone who looks into her left eye is cursed to have bad luck follow them for the rest of thier life

Hometown: Briar Valley

Background: They are twins, Sora being the older one. Sora is typically more reserved out of the two. Both are forgetful, which is why their uniforms dont have the armbands, and Sora losing the buttons on her vest. Sora is much more outspoken with her sister than she is with most people, Luna however is more energetic and outgoing. Sora takes pleasure in the suffering of those who she considers "bad people" (i know 2016 mary sue core 😔) both can be creepy as hell though.

Soridia: Sora x Idia

Viluna: Vil x Luna

tags: @officialdaydreamer00 @twistwonderlanddevotee @angelhairpastawithherbs

[snakebusters]

Mew species, new to science ....

Hoser, R. T. 2024. Sliding into scientific reality. Taxonomic changes to the Australian skink genus Lerista Bell, 1833 sensu lato, including the erection of 8 new genera, 19 new species and 5 new subspecies. Australasian Journal of Herpetology 70: 1-64.

Nomenclatural Acts (32)

Genus Group

       Aaah Hoser, 2024

       Acdc Hoser, 2024

       Ah Hoser, 2024

       Get Hoser, 2024

       Go Hoser, 2024

       Labi Hoser, 2024

       Oh Hoser, 2024

       Tism Hoser, 2024

Species Group

       Aaah ngandatha Hoser, 2024

       Aaah skink Hoser, 2024

       Ah ha Hoser, 2024

       Gaia arrernte Hoser, 2024

       Gaia asgicondi Hoser, 2024

       Gaia kunja Hoser, 2024

       Gaia oomph Hoser, 2024

       Gaia pitjantjatjara Hoser, 2024

       Get intoit Hoser, 2024

       Get it Hoser, 2024

       Marrunisauria gurindji Hoser, 2024

       Marrunisauria ngarinyin Hoser, 2024

       Marrunisauria wam Hoser, 2024

       Miculia ruficauda Hoser, 2024

       Oh kay Hoser, 2024

       Oh know Hoser, 2024

       Oh phuk Hoser, 2024

       Oh sheet Hoser, 2024

       Oh yes Hoser, 2024

       Soridia luxflavo Hoser, 2024

       Spectrascincus hit Hoser, 2024

       Spectrascincus thingi Hoser, 2024

       Tychismia valentici Hoser, 2024

       Tychismia wellsei Hoser, 2024

[violet-prism-creatively]

Image description:

A picture of an iceberg above and below the water, divided into layers with labels on the side.

The topmost section, above the iceberg, labeled "pre-lichen": noticing weird colored blotches on the trees outside; learning what a symbiotic relationship is.

The visible portion of the iceberg, labeled "lichens and YOU": a lichen is a fungus and an algae in a symbiotic relationship; microbiomes; fruticose, foliose, and crustose growth forms.

Underwater, "certified lichen body part time": lichen apothecia; lichens take forever to grow; isidia/soridia; lichens love graveyards (lots of undisturbed rocks and other fun surfaces there); how lichens happen (in theory) (foreshadowing); fruticose lichens prefer shorelines, crustose tend to grow inland.

"lichen ID time!!": textbook/coffee table book/ID text Lichens of North America (Irwin M. Brodo); lichen ID by looking at them kinda close and noticing apothecia, color, substrate, any lumps/bumps/hairs/weird stuff it make, etc; cyanobacteria instead of algae sometimes .

"the monkey's paw curls on lichen ID time": lichen ID with chemicals that make them change color; lichen ID with UV light; lichen ID via spores from a cut open apothecia under a microscope; squamulose growth forms; nitrogen-fixing bacteria as added symbionts sometimes.

"not thinking these things are quite right tbh": lichens surviving prolonged periods in the vacuum of space; lichens growing on bone, cars, plastic, metal, pretty much anything left outside for a long time in the magically right conditions; lichens cover a not-insignificant amount of the earth's surface.

The dark ocean below the iceberg, "the sauce": lichens that absorb heavy metals in the air, lichens that are intolerant of air pollution; fungus has the most biomass in a lichen but all symbionts contribute statistically equally; dating historical buildings by the size of the lichens on them; basidiolichens exist.

"the plot twists again": prehistoric lichen fossils, they were possibly one of the first life forms on land; yeast as another possible symbiont at least sometimes; what even is a 'species' of lichen have you seen those guys lately???

"just dont think about it bro": lichens are named by their fungus because victorians used to think it was the 'dominant' part but now we know no part is dominant so what exactly is the best way to name a lichen???; lichen genomic sequencing, lichen evolutionary lineages; what if yeast as a symbiont is more common than we think.

"the lichen abyss": as of yet unknown symbionts (maybe its all soup in the end); still cant make a lichen happen in a lab (implies we dont actually fully understand how lichens happen to begin with)

the lichen knowledge iceberg i have constructed on request

[botanyshitposts]

Whats a lichen if not a plant

(Note: writing this response with Capitals™ bc its long and kind of hard to read otherwise, I’m trying to do that more with my longer posts)

Either an ecological event or a superorganism, depending on how you look at it.

To explain this. like. we do not ‘know’ what a lichen is. We know like, what they are, or at least we’re getting increasingly closer to finding out everything that makes up a lichen, but lichenologists have really struggled to define it as like, A Sole Thing. Botanists and mycologists of the past thought lichens were primarily fungi, because when you dried one out and weighed it, most of the dry weight was fungus; this is why today we still name lichens based on their fungal components, while it turns out that the give and take of all organisms in a lichen are pretty much equal.

It’s a symbiotic relationship, we’ve known that for a long time, but now we know, for instance, that some fungi can pair up with different species of algae to make different lichens. How can we reliably name something after it’s fungus if that fungus can pair up with different things to make multiple different ‘species’? And as of 2016 we know that lichens can have up to four different players: a fungus, an algae, a yeast, and (in some families) a second fungus, previously thought to be parasitic on the lichen itself. 

I will personally argue that lichens are an ecological event. To me, this theory gets down to lichen reproduction, which is….completely off the shits. 

Lichens can reproduce in a few different ways, the simplest ones being 1. a piece of lichen breaks off and lands in a fitting environment, creating a new lichen that’s a clone of the mother system, and/or 2. a lichen has special organs that release specially-made ‘mini lichens’ that have the main components packaged together into little ‘spores’ (these organs are called isidia and soridia, and look slightly different), creating a similar result to #1 with a clone of the mother system. 

Now, you may be wondering: ‘But lichens have sexual structures. can’t they have like, Lichen Sex™?’. Which. Like. This is where it gets wild, because it ties back to the ecological mystery of how lichens ‘make new lichens from scratch’ so to speak. 

The thing is, those sexual structures don’t have the components paired together. They only produce sexually-made spores of the fungus, and if these spores land in the right conditions, they won’t form a lichen, they’ll form a non-lichenized version of that fungus. So, conventionally, as we currently understand it, the way for them to form a new lichen would be for two compatible spores- one algae and one fungus, or like, one algae and one fungus or one yeast, we don’t know how those other components fit into the equation yet– to meet in the right conditions, under which case the pair recognizes each other and starts to spontaneously go down an entirely different developmental path to become a lichen. Keep in mind that lichen and algae spores are like…everywhere in the air and in the world around us, just the majority of them don’t find the proper growing conditions and die, so this does happen enough to make all the lichens we see on a day to day basis.

But. There are agonizing mysteries about this process. For example:

-We do not know how the algae and fungal spores, when they meet, know that they’re compatible in the first place. Like, on a cellular level. 

-We do know that after a certain point, the organisms involved are locked into their developmental path. They need to meet at an extremely young age (as spores) to become a lichen. If a mature fungus and a mature algae meet, nothing happens, even if they would have been compatible as spores.

-Science, to my knowledge, still has not yet been able to replicate the ‘lichens being made from scratch’ process in a lab. The spores will recognize each other and start developing on a microscopic level, and then they’ll just….stop developing and die, which is why we can only produce new lichens in a lab by growing sterilized fragments from old lichens. Whether or not we’ve just been like, missing all the ‘ingredients’ and you need a yeast or second fungus or something to finish the process, I have no idea. 

In conclusion: Lichens are mysterious soups. Lichens, to me, aren’t a thing that lives, but more like a thing that happens between living things. It’s an event of several different things coming together to proliferate on a tree or a rock or wherever, and they are everywhere, and we do not know everything about what they are or how they work. Some people, again, will call them ‘superorganisms’, which isn’t wrong either, but I personally like to think about them in a weird like…..temporal sense? Idk man they haunt me every day of my life.