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Taxonomy
Taxonomy
of the Occlupanida
Taxonomy
Class Occlupanida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread) are placed under the Kingdom Microsynthera, of the Phylum Plasticae. Occlupanids share phylum Plasticae with "45" record holders, plastic juice caps, and other often ignored small plastic objects.
Methodology
In constructing a taxonomy, many factors such as genetics, derived traits, growth and development, sexual dimorphism, reproduction, and a fossil record are taken into account. For a synthetic taxonomy, all of these critical keystones of information are entirely absent. The synthetic taxonomist is forced to construct a lineage much like Carl Linnaeus winged it in the 1700’s: group things that look similar, draw lots of complex-looking charts, and hope your future descendents work out occlupanid genetics somehow.
Since most occlupanids sport a confounding jumble of homologous structures, occlupanologists focused on the oral groove to establish taxa. Much like insect wings, occlupanids are grouped according to the dentition (or lack thereof) in their oral groove, which often dictates both their ecological niche and biogeographic location.
A proposed phylogeny starts with the reasonable assumption that the most basal occlupanids resembled something like the Archignatha, with subsequent orders placed according to their dentition arrangement. In time as more and greater niches arose in the civilized world, greater speciation has occurred, resulting in new orders arising and spreading out as older ones wane.
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▼What are Occlupanids?
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Morphology
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Origins of the Occlupanida
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►Acutignathidae
Adstringosaccus bediae
Brevallus quies
Extantis obnixa
Extantis sarpolatus
Migrugibba modestus
Migrugibba vulpis
Ochraderma platybranchus
Stylodentis ubiquitus
Toroidopanis minor
Toroidopanis substrictus
Toroidopanis undulatis
►Angulognathidae
Quadraenicta oregana
Shokupanus mihashii
Shokupanus pepperellae
►Archignathidae
Aculeopalpus phaseolus
Ampullaenigma thermastris
Cardioris amplifolium
Cardioris cirrhosoma
Chirophragma necopinus
Cryptocolax lilidonum
Cyrtotergum albus
Cyrtotergum rosenbergeri
Cyrtotergum viridis
Deuterofenestrum texastertrochus
Deuterofenestrum trexlerii
Diplacofelis alveustoma
Diplacofelis montrealensis
Diplacofelis ridwellensis
Diplacofelis wangi
Euschizus veterinarius
Glycodontis charma
Gratacurvatis austeja
Gratacurvatis gyrodacna
Gratacurvatis ospala
Hadroklonis imbrex
Hadroklonis tegula
Halotrema corculum
Halotrema therapion
Helicogenys voluta
Hyalocardis novicyanus
Hypersoma cordatus
Hypersoma minutimaxilla
Illicilondinium mckelveyi
Infirmimaxilla kurisu
Inflectoculus cleidophylax
Kurisuphenax edentulus
Kurisuphenax secondus
Kurisuphenax ultimus
Latericavus pareidolia
Longilex becneli
Malumcardioris renatusi
Megapanis gregjubyi
Megapanis huningi
Megapanis huningi conversus
Megapanis hursti
Megapanis sonorus
Megapanis sonorus chiralis
Megapanis tarassovae
Megapanis tarassovae treptocardia
Niphofacies buccacoris
Oosoma feniseca
Pagocardis pollicaris
Palmaplanus lacrimocavus
Protocrena astyplanktos
Protocrena discilavator
Protocrena escharops
Protocrena gigantis
Protocrena latubucca
Protocrena longibranchium
Protocrena obtusilateri
Protocrena osorbis
Protocrena pachyplatus
Protocrena similaris
Protocrena variotaedium
Pseudopalpis hayesi
Quadratopalpus ilex
Scabroderma balaniphagus
Scindocorpus bivultus
Scindocorpus vitreus
Stenocorpus arcanus
Stenocorpus dissimilis
Stenocorpus lactichroma
Stenocorpus oscitatio
Stenocorpus remisoma
Zygastrion amiculis
►Concavigulidae
Occultatheca ragsdalei
Tetragonus callere
►Corrugatidae
Asterirosea dreamlandii
Chiasmogramma vercepa
Citrivector nomas
Citrivector scrutarius
Collatus alliolepus
Collatus mysteriosa
Constrictula castigatus
Constrictula chalasma
Constrictula decussatoris
Constrictula estabrookae
Constrictula milwaukiensis
Constrictula rugosa
Constrictula tetrasulcus
Elasticaprehendus rugosa
Elasticaprehendus spatiosus
Eurycomplector labiopictus
Genevertonicus artus
Genevertonicus laxus
Genevertonicus quimbyi
Patulastoma palpatophoides
Quadrivium rockatockae
Rugoris angustus
Rugoris arduus
Rugoris chasmoris
Rugoris paradisicus
Rugoris imparidecussatus
Rugoris rotumanus
Rugoris tenax
Systellognatha hibernica
►Enoptrognathidae
Conversus caperatus
►Fibulictidae
Impleximotus stellaformatus
►Fusoridae
Perovora suspicio
Perovora orthrus
►Haplognathidae
Athyrmidion imagiglacialis
Dicrania vugada
Indescribus conundrum
Inflatisoma asymmetrica
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