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michaelvoeltzDescription
Perhaps 2mm, observed crawling along pot surface within Conservancy of Flowers.
Tried to see if there were "teeth" in the aperture but couldn't seem to manage it..
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Prickly Hakea (Hakea sericea)Observer
jacqui-nzDescription
Regenerating plants at the December 2014 fire site.
Hakea is a scourge around Cornwallis and parts of the Huia coastline.
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Genus PolyipnusObserver
glinksDescription
Maybe a Polyipnus? Quite decomposed. Juvenile.
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leah_sunDescription
Very tiny that we only saw it from the camera when we were taking photos of a fungi. And then 80% of the time our camera lost it. ~1mm I think?
I do not know anything about it. Very little information online. Thanks to computer vision this is my best guess
the fungi on the last photo:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223904394
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invertebratistPlace
Exhibition Drive Path, Waitakere Ranges, Titirangi, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Under a decomposing wood.
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invertebratistPlace
Exhibition Drive Path, Waitakere Ranges, Titirangi, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
On a carabid.
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invertebratistPlace
Exhibition Drive Path, Waitakere Ranges, Titirangi, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. On the underside of a fallen Nikau frond.
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Genus IxodesObserver
invertebratistPlace
Shag Rock, south of Motuhinahina Island, Te Whanga Lagoon, Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
On ''Shag Rock''.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Multiple parasitic mites are visible on the neck of both of the Chatham Island Shag pair.
Observation for the host (Chatham Island Shag): https://inaturalist.org/observations/239617894
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lekDescription
Little white specks that were moving, on an object inside the house. These were the big ones, but I think still less than 1 mm. Could they be dust mites?
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stephen_thorpeDescription
Gittos Domain, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600.
Rust on Isolepis distigmatosa.
Associated with a seepage, just behind Sandy Bay.
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Kahikatea Mealybug (Paraferrisia podocarpi)Observer
stephen_thorpeDescription
Puriri Drive, Campbell Park, Greenlane, Auckland. Ovisacs on rimu.
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stephen_thorpeDescription
Atkinson Park, Zigzag Track. On Astelia hastata. An ant is in attendance (probably Prolasius advena).
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Fungi Including Lichens (Kingdom Fungi)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
leah_sunDescription
It is really really tiny, found on a small decaying wood bark. I really like the photo but unfortunately unable to ID.
Any help with the ID will be appreciated.
Please see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214155166 for another one that I found on the same wood bark
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Dicots [Paraphyletic] (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Coastal.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Pond and Melantho Snails (Family Lymnaeidae)Observer
stephen_thorpeDescription
Exhibition Drive, Titirangi, Auckland.
Trackside vertical rock face, at a seepage.
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invertebratistDescription
21.13×16.67 mm. 2019-0320D-8
Intertidal, found on rock. Live taken.
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Stag Beetles (Family Lucanidae)Observer
invertebratistPlace
Exhibition Drive Path, Waitakere Ranges, Titirangi, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a decomposing log.
Larva.
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Genus PlacidaObserver
invertebratistPlace
Phoenix Reef, Tāwharanui Marine Reserve, Tāwharanui Peninsula, Rodney, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
iNatting with @emma_brockes.
Both length 4 mm when extended.
Low intertidal. Found by sieving through red algae and brown algae (Image #5 #6) growing on a wall of a shallow crevice on the reef.
Placida?
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invertebratistDescription
Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Coprosma ×kirkiiObserver
invertebratistDescription
Fieldwork with @ lloyd_esler, @ predomalpha and @ fiestykakapo.
Weeds.
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Honey Mushrooms (Genus Armillaria)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Motuweta ripariaObserver
danilo_heggDescription
Sub-adult female hiding under water. She jumped into the stream after being disturbed by light. Holding on to sticks at bottom of stream to avoid floating back to surface.
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Golden-brown Jumping Spider (Trite auricoma)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1. Need to double check the location
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Chatham Shag (Leucocarbo onslowi)Observer
invertebratistPlace
Shag Rock, south of Motuhinahina Island, Te Whanga Lagoon, Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Coastal (shore of a rock within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Observation for the parasitic mites (Ixodidae?):
https://inaturalist.org/observations/239617895
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invertebratistPlace
Bealey Valley Track, Arthur's Pass National Park, Selwyn, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Alpine.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
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Odiaglyptus biformisObserver
invertebratistPlace
PrivateDescription
Within a farmland.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Stalked Adder's-Tongue (Ophioglossum petiolatum)Observer
pjd1Description
Locally common on seasonally flooded ground on lake margin. Growing in peaty sand with Apodasmia similis, Ophioglossum coriaceum and various mosses and liverworts.
A problematic population. Some plants corresponding to Ophioglossum coriaceum and others intermediate between that species and O. petiolatum. I am (for now) placing the larger plants into O. petiolatum (I have seen similar plants accepted as this from Raoul Island, and Te Paki by New Zealand Pteridologists). I suspect, that for many populations ascribed to O. petiolatum in reality we are dealing with hybrid swarms between something like O. petiolatum and O. coriaceum - we have some evidence to support this from cytological studies which found that of 8 New Zealand populations attributed to O. petiolatum, only one was functional, all the others produced sterile spores. Notably most grew close to O. coriaceum - as at this site.
Placement in O. petiolatum (for now) for most of the plants seen here is based on the size of the fertile spike which ranged between 14 and 20 sporangia pairs. However, the sterile blade is more typical of O. coriaceum. See also https://inaturalist.nz/observations/199256092 for an observation of the same population made on 14 February 2024.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange CH4548, UNITEC 14417
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Family GeophilidaeObserver
invertebratistDescription
Hand-picked from a collected soil sample.
Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Chatham Island Ice Plant (Disphyma papillatum)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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christopherstephensDescription
I expect this is the very same tree in @stephen_thorpe 's observation: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/68934903
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invertebratistDescription
Found in shell sand at home.
First one for me, juvenile.
I think this is a D. squmifera, but not 100% sure,
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Maorina lamellataObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Manawa Wetland Reserve. On foliage.
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Barbula calycinaObserver
caiden_bDescription
iNAtting with @glebglub and @invertebratist.
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Dieffenbach's Koromiko (Veronica dieffenbachii)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Coastal. Flowering.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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Genus TekellinaObserver
invertebratistDescription
Beaten from flowering Titoki (Alectryon excelsus).
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Compact Flat-backed Millipede (Brachydesmus superus)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Under a piece of wood resting on garden soil. Male
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Hakapiri (Olearia traversiorum)Observer
pjd1Description
Just starting to flower. Probably original trees but now part of a farm shelter belt.
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Kākāpō (Strigops habroptila)Observer
sea-kangarooDescription
Honeycomb Hill Cave.
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Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)Observer
glebglubDescription
first in 10+ years, awesome little thing and my first mega!!
THE VALIANT AND TIRELESS WANDERER OF THE NORTH GRAAAAAAAA
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North Island Fernbird (Poodytes punctatus ssp. vealeae)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Native podocarp-broadleaved forest /
wetland.
5 seen, more than 20 heard within 3 hrs. Pretty amazing.
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North Island Fernbird (Poodytes punctatus ssp. vealeae)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Native podocarp-broadleaved forest /
wetland.
5 seen, more than 20 heard within 3 hrs. Pretty amazing.
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Kawaupaka (New Zealand Little Shag) (Microcarbo melanoleucos ssp. brevirostris)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Coastal.
It caught a Scolecenchelys breviceps, however swallowing it seemed almost impossible.
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Genus ScolecenchelysObserver
invertebratistDescription
Coastal. Resisting the Phalacrocorax sulcirostris which was trying so hard to swallow it for a few minutes!
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Genus HolacanthellaObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Ayr Reserve, Parnell, Auckland.
A group of 5 large springtails about 1 m above the ground, on the trunk of a dead tree.
Although this is my first observation for this genus, I may have ignored/overlooked it until now.
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Genus CompactozetesObserver
invertebratistDescription
Coastal native podocarp-broadleaved bush, under rotten log.
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Compactozetes nigerObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Auckland Domain.
One group of mites, on the underside of a rotten branch, on the ground, in mixed native/exotic bush.
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Grassworts (Genus Lilaeopsis)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Coastal stream
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Latia neritoidesObserver
invertebratistDescription
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night. Freshwater. Bioluminescent (only after being touched)
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carey-knox-southern-scalesDescription
12 Photos. At about 1,700 metres a.s.l in the Fox Range between Sam Peak and Crozet Peak. First time I've ever seen a green peripatus
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blogmanDescription
Larval mantis shrimp found in plankton haul above seagrass beds on Tiri Island.
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Hypocrella duplexObserver
invertebratistDescription
Native Podocarp-broadleaved bush, at night.
On Nikau leaf.
Observed with Andy Xiong
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Common Land Snails and Slugs (Order Stylommatophora)Observer
openlabnzDescription
Collected in leaflitter from a pukatea/hinau/rewarewa swamp forest remnant in Woodlands Retirement Village.
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Septoria cerastiiObserver
stephen_thorpeDescription
Berm out front of 12 Heaphy St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. On Cerastium glomeratum.
Although this is my first observation for this species, I may have ignored/overlooked it until now.
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anudibranchmomPlace
PrivateDescription
With egg spirals. Several adults on the same blade.
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Family ParasitidaeObserver
frankashwoodDescription
In leaf litter, extracted via Tullgren funnel.
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mattbarrettDescription
Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan
Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.
This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?
The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.
A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3
A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM
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reinerDescription
unknown fungus in QLD
Identified as Gymnogaster boletoides on Bowerbird by Tim Cannon
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Bonnets (Genus Mycena)Observer
dougaltDescription
Mycena sp. 'Nile River'. Went back after a tip from J. Cooper that these might be bioluminescent. They were emitting a faint glow.
Exposure times of 6-8 minutes at f/8 and ISO 3200 were reasonable. Some post-process tweaking.
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Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae ssp. novaeseelandiae)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest (remnant)
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invertebratistPlace
Otaki Beach to Waikawa Beach, Kapiti Coast, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Found in a washed up gastropoda. was alive for a couple days without much water!
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invertebratistPlace
Otaki Beach to Waikawa Beach, Kapiti Coast, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Coastal, backdune, at night.
Camouflaging.
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Moa (Order Dinornithiformes)Observer
invertebratistDescription
Washed up on the beach.
