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Egg-laying velvet-worm Ooperipatellus species. This velvet-worm was found under a log in a damp woodland gulley, during our Bush Blitz on Flinders Island in March 2014. It is almost certainly an undescribed species, and may prove to be confined to Flinders Island. Velvet-worms are in a phylum of their own and have very ancient origins that pre-date the rise of the arthropods. Tasmania is a hot-spot for them, and may eventually be shown to host hundreds of species, although they mostly look very similar from the outside.

Saw a big dark shadow "flew" past overhead while searching for the lesser mousedeer. Thought it was a changeable hawk eagle given the numerous times I've heard the calls in the area. Looked up and saw this dude staring right at me. Unusually active as it keeps scaling up trees and looking around at its surroundings. Also, heard 3x abbott's babbler calling in the area. As I focused on finding the abbott's babbler, this dude flew again to another tree. Very spectacular sight especially being able to see it gliding twice in the day!

there were many of these large fish with long snouts gathered in the shallows of the creek. i assume they were trying to spawn. they were there at least an hour. here's a video of the fish: https://youtu.be/Y5ohDpmSdyk.

On incubated deer dung. I found dung frozen on top of snow on Jan 30. Incubated from Jan 30 to Feb 5, only 6 days.
Perithecia superficial black.
Asci 8-spored.
Ascospores measure
(21.5) 21.7 - 23.5 (24.3) × (15) 15.4 - 16.5 (17) µm
Q = 1.4 (1.5) ; N = 19
Me = 22.6 × 16 µm ; Qe = 1.4

Perithecium was next to Sordaria fimicola, which has smaller and narrow ascospores.

Sample from a bogy pond near the Warnsdorfer Bach near the Warnsdorfer Quelle in the Tharandter Forest near Dresden, analysed at my privat laboratory.

Photo with Leica DMLS, 40x HCX Plan Apo, Panasonic GX7, stacked

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"Infektion einer Mougeotia-Population durch Micromyces zygogonii Dangeard an einem alpinen Standort."
G. Huber-Pestalozzi, Zürich

Hedwigia_71_1931

Although the photos are less evident than in the observation https://www.biodiversity4all.org/observations/64469893
that in fact was dedicated to this fungus, I decided to try again to identify the fungus that lives on specimens of Cribraria argillacea (is it specific to this species?).
I reasoned by analogy; If fungi growing on lichens are known as Lichenicolous fungi, then those growing on myxomycetes should be called by Myxomyceticolous Fungi; BINGO! in fact, it is like that and even found a paper called "Myxomyceticolous Fungi" (see below). Reading the paper I found one with the features I was looking for; It is called
Polycephalomyces tomentosus
and has various synonyms coming from other names given to the same fungus when parasitizing other myxomycetes, like Arcyria, Metatrichia and Trichia. I also found photos very similar to those I took in the field. Here are some links:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/biteyourbum/51643483563/
https://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/polycephalomyces/interesting/

Reference:
Clark T. Rogerson and Steve Stephenson: Myxomyceticolous Fungi,
Mycologia 85(3):456-469, May 1993