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#Biodiversity150 number 4 of 150 Yellow Cedar Tree

6/150: Yellow cedars get cold feet

Plantae: Pinophyta: Pinidae: Pinales: Cupressaceae: Callitropsis: Callitropsis nootkatensis (D. Don, 1824) One of the oldest ...
#Biodiversity150 number 5 of 150 Spider

5/150: Tiny spiders crawl their way into the record books

Animalia: Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Anapidae: Comaroma: Comaroma mendocino (Levi, 1957) Comaroma mendocino is a new ...
#Biodiversity150 number 6 of 150 Rainbow Sea Star

4/150: Rainbows and Death in the Canadian Pacific

Animalia: Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Forcipulatida : Asteriidae: Orthasterias: Orthasterias koehleri (Deloriol, 1897) Did you see Star ...
#Biodiversity150 number 3 of 150 Wolverine

3/150: I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice – Wolverine, 1982

Animalia: Chordata: Mammalia: Carnivora: Gulo: Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Wolverine (Gulo gulo) is an ...
#Biodiversity150 number 2 of 150 Scorpionfly

2/150: Scorpionflies, pollinating before it was cool

Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Mecoptera: Panorpidae: Panorpa: Panorpa submaculosa (Carpenter 1931) Mecoptera are primitive insects that are ...
#Biodiversity150 number 1 of 150 Firefly

1/150: These Fireflies are Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Lampyridae: Photuris quadrifulgens (Barber, 1951) Photuris quadrifulgens is a species in the ...