Template:Did you know nominations/Ocypode cursor
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 04:57, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Ocypode cursor
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- ... that the crab Ocypode cursor (pictured) can be found along the coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean and eastern Mediterranean Sea, but not in the western Mediterranean Sea in between?
Created/expanded by Stemonitis (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 03:59, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
- Article has nearly 1800 characters prose
- Brand new, nominated about five days later
- Image is freely licensed, AND featured on Commons!
- Cited inline, sources appear to be of sufficient reliability
- QPQ not necessary
- Hook is interesting and sufficiently brief (about 185 characters), supported by ref
- AGF on Hydrobiologia (my access only goes back to 1997)
Issues:
- There is a spot of close paraphrasing in #Description: compare "a tuft of setae (bristles) extending from the tips of the eyestalks" with "a tuft of hair-like setae extending from the tips of the eyes". Any chance of rephrasing this? Its short enough that it isn't a significant issue.
- I would assert so, yes. There are only so many ways of describing a tuft of setae that extend from the eyes. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- Article and WoRMS has "Ocypode ippeus Olivier, 1804", but the FAO source says 1807. Is this just a mistake by FAO?
- I assume so. The FAO source is rather older, and has been subject to fewer revisions since publication. WoRMS should be up-to-date, not least as it includes the outputs from a number of recent conspectuses, including the very authoritative Systema Brachyurorum. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Suggestions:
- WoRMS shows the crab on a Cyprus? postage stamp, want to include material on that?
- Um, ... no. Lots of things have been pictured on stamps; why would that be considered significant? (We can't even legitimately show the stamp, because it's not available under a free licence.) --Stemonitis (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- Also, when did the name change from Cancer cursor to Ocypode cursor?
- Good question. It doesn't appear to have occurred in Weber (1795), who only lists O. ceratophthalma, O. quadrata and "O. rhombea" (= O. quadrata). It was already in Ocypode (Ocypode) by the time of Fauna Japonica (1830), but nomenclatural issues around Ocypode are rather complex, and without a definite statement from a reliable source, I think it's best not to speculate. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:30, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
- I should have added: I'd be more than happy to send you the reference you can't access. E-mail me if you'd like me to send it. --Stemonitis (talk) 07:39, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
