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New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! * 2
    #14501181 - 05/23/11 08:46 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110523/sc_livescience/trexleechtitanicbacteriamaketop10newspecieslist

Go here for pictures: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Top-10-New-Species-2010/ss/events/sc/05231110newspecies;_ylt=AsmuJGdcKXJ6RsYmNexmFsqx_aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTE3MnBzMW5hBHBvcwMyOQRzZWMDeW5fZmVhdHVyZWQEc2xrA3NsaWRlc2hvd19saQ--

A pancake-shaped batfish, a leech with titanic teeth found inside a human's nose and an iron-eating bacterium snagged spots on the Top 10 New Species list, announced Monday (May 23) by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of taxonomists.

This year's top 10 come from around the world, including Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, the North Atlantic Ocean, Oregon, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa and West Africa.

The top 10, in no specific order, include:
T.-rex leech: The Tyrannobdella rex leech, which sports gigantic teeth, was found in the nostril of a 9-year-old girl by Peruvian physician Renzo Arauco-Brown.

Titanic bacterium: Found at the bottom of the ocean, at the site of the RMS Titanic shipwreck, this iron-eating bacterium named Halomonas titanicae. The bacterium sticks to steel surfaces, creating knob-like mounds of corrosion products, called "rusticles."

Pancake batfish: The odd fish seems to hop on its thick, arm-like fins as it moves awkwardly in the water, resembling a walking bat. It was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico.

Glowing fungus: Lighting up the top 10 is a luminescent fungus collected in São Paulo, Brazil, which have gel-coated stems that emit a bright, yellowish-green light constantly.

Jumping cockroaches: As if cockroaches weren't creepy enough on the ground, one discovered last year has legs that are highly modified for jumping, putting its ability on par with grasshoppers. Named Saltoblattella montistabularis, the cockroach was discovered in the Mountain National Park in South Africa.

Monitor lizard: At more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) in length, a fruit-eating monitor lizard discovered in the Philippines is the lengthiest species to make this year's top 10. The blue, black, green and gold lizard, named Varanus bitatawa, weighs in at 22 pounds and spends most of its time in trees.

Dead antelope: A new antelope, named Philantomba walteri, was discovered in West Africa, but sadly it was already dead: it was discovered at a bushmeat market.

Raspy cricket: Glomeremus orchidophilus made the list for its distinction of being the only pollinator of the rare and endangered orchid Angraecum cadetii in the Mascarene Archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Gilled mushroom: Called Psathyrella aquatica, this gilled mushroom was found in the northwestern United States submerged in the clear, cold, flowing waters of the upper Rogue River in Oregon.

Giant orb-weaver: A giant orb-weaving spider discovered in Madagascar makes webs that can span rivers, streams and lakes. Its silk is more than two times stronger than any other known spider silk. [Gallery: Spooky Spiders]

This annual top 10 new species announcement commemorates the anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, who initiated the modern system of plant and animal names and classifications. The list is issued annually by ASU's International Institute for Species Exploration to shine attention on biodiversity. Nominations were invited through the ASU website and also generated by institute staff and an international committee of experts.
Click image to see photos of the top 10 new species of 2010

Mike Picker (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
"We can only realistically aspire to sustainable biodiversity if we first learn what species exist to begin with. Our best guess is that all species discovered since 1758 represent less than 20 percent of the kinds of plants and animals inhabiting planet Earth," Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist who directs the International Institute for Species Exploration, said in a statement.

"A reasonable estimate is that 10 million species remain to be described, named, and classified before the diversity and complexity of the biosphere is understood," he said.
You can follow LiveScience staff writer Jennifer Welsh on Twitter @microbelover. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: Azurescens89]
    #14501279 - 05/23/11 09:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

The monitor lizard and the of course the water growing mushroom sound the most interesting to me.


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: dondoodle]
    #14501301 - 05/23/11 09:03 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Could the genetics of glowing mushrooms and psylocibe be possible to combinate?

Maybe there could be someday cubensis underwater.... XD


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: InsertName]
    #14501342 - 05/23/11 09:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Lots of threads about both fungus species already are in place here, we are far ahead of these people.


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: Azurescens89]
    #14501417 - 05/23/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: Azurescens89]
    #14501433 - 05/23/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

The two mushroom species have been reported in SNS previously.
For more info see here:
Underwater mushroom discovered!
Freaky Fungi Glow in the Dark

It's amazing that new species are being discovered every year. That batfish is very cool looking. I find the Caerostris darwini spider particularly interesting. It builds a HUGE web and the silk is reported to be 10 times stronger than Kevlar®. :shocked:



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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: veggie]
    #14501479 - 05/23/11 09:24 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)



That shit is scary!


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: esquaredx]
    #14501760 - 05/23/11 10:15 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I was going to say I thought I heard about those underwater mushroom a couple years back. But I guess that was 3 and a half years ago.

Ah the Upper Rogue is such a beautiful place. I love camping up there.
Who would of thunk to hunt mushrooms under that.



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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: 4runner]
    #14503942 - 05/24/11 11:39 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I saw lady named Darlene Southworth give a talk at the Cascade Mycological Society about Psathyrella Aquatica right around the time it published in Mycologia.  It kind of blew my mind that the first mushroom to propagate underwater was found just a few hours away and the people who found and are studying it are giving talks at the Community College.


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Re: New Species of fungi: underwater mushroom/glowing! [Re: SirNoseDvoidoFungi]
    #14526160 - 05/28/11 12:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)



Name:  Mycena luxaeterna

Common Name:  Eternal light mushroom

Family:  Mycenaceae

How it made the Top 10:  This new species, collected from some of the last remaining Atlantic forest habitat near São Paulo, Brazil, emits very bright yellowish green light 24 hours per day from its gel-covered stems.  DNA sequences of this species
(from 5 gene regions) are helping us to understand the origin and evolution of bioluminescence in the fungi.  Of the estimated 1.5 million species of fungi on earth, only 71 species are known to be bioluminescence and Mycena luxaeterna is one of the most visually striking species.

Reference:  Desjardin, D.E., B.A. Perry, D.J. Lodge, C.V. Stevani, and E. Nagasawa. 2010. Luminescent Mycena: new and noteworthy species. Mycologia 102(2):459- 477.

Type Material:  Holotype – Instituto de Botânica Herbário (SP), São Paulo, Brazil.  Isotype – San Francisco State University Thiers Herbarium (SFSU), San Francisco, California, USA. Paratypes – SP and SFSU.

Type Locality:  Brazil, São Paulo state, Iporanga, Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira, Poço da Viúva, 24°35.220'S, 48°37.840'W.

Etymology:  lux = light (L.), aeterna = eternal (L.), referring to the constant light emitted by the basidiomes. The epithet was inspired by and borrowed from Mozart’s Requiem (Communio).


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