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 * Far Out Frogfish**
 * By: Megan Gee**

__Scientific Name:__ Histiophryne psychedelica

__Where was it found?__ Bali, Indonesia

__How did they name it?__ They named it for its psychedelic pink and white stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern.

__How was it discovered?__ A while ago they found two of these frogfishes and had no idea what they were. So the divers took them to an aquarium to have them check them out but they were very sick so when they died they preserved them and placed them on the shelf. Later someone else found another one and took it to do the tests and that is when they found out that it was a frogfish.

__How did they classify it?__ Researchers were not sure how to classify this because it is so different from any other type of fish. It’s nearest genus is histiophryne yet there are so many differences between the two that they didn’t want to classify it as that. So with this they wanted to create a new genus for this frogfish but they did a DNA test to make the final call on it and they found that it did fall in the genus of the histiophryne.

__Related animals?__ There are other types of frogfishes just they don’t have hardly any of the same characteristics as the “far-out” frogfish. However this type does fall into a specific genus it still is hardly like any of those animals, it is only because of some little part in its DNA that puts them in the same genus.

__How is that determined?__ The fish takes on a ball shape. It has a behavior that is like a bouncing beach ball in the wind. They have depth perception like humans. Unlike other frogfishes their color never changes even if they change their habitat.

__Characteristics:__ It has an unusual “psychedelic” pattern and is a unique frogfish because it is flat-faced unlike a few others. It can grow to be about 15 centimeters long. Also they have no scales. They have the same depth perception as humans because of the forward facing eyes, something you almost never see in fish.







The Classification of Orchids

O//rchidaceae// (the orchid family) is the largest family of flowering plants with more than **25,000 species**, with more and more new orchid plants are being discovered continually, though about 3,000 of the species are under taxonomic dispute. It is also the oldest type of flowering plant on earth and makes up about **6–11%** of all seed plants. The largest genus of orchids are the //**Bulbophyllum**// with about 2,000 species, the //**Epidendrum**// with about 1,500 species, the __**Dendrobium**__ with about 1,400 species.

Bulbophyllum



Epidendrum

This genus has the following characteristics : 
 * a slit rostellum (small extension or little beak to the median stigma lobe), producing a transparent or white thick and adhesive liquid.
 * the sometimes fringed lip is adnate to ( = united with) the column (forming a nectary tube (but rarely producing nectar), continuing through the pedicel).
 * the pollinarium contains 4 pollinia (with sometimes 2 very reduced pollinia), rarely only 2 pollinia.
 * the erect, pendent, or creeping stems are reed-like, simple or branching, or may be pseudobulbs or thickened stems.

Dendrobium

Dendrobium species are either epiphytic, or occasionally lithopytic. They have adapted to a wide variety of habitats, from the high altitudes in the Himalayan mountains to lowland tropical forests and even to the dry climate of the Australian desert.



Classification of the leopard By Alex Hutcheson

Kingdom: Animalia -Contains all animals, -monkeys, snakes, and Twaan Phylum: Chordata -The animal posseses a notochord which is basically just a spinal chord as well as a tail, -trout,otters and Twaan Class: Mammalia -Must have hair, 3 middle ear bones, mammary glands, and a placenta. -Giraffe, bat, and beaver Order: Carnivora - Must have sharp claws, at leat four toes per feet, and blade like teeth -Least weasel, polar bear, and the elephant seal Family: Felidae