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der Standard DEAn unusual, hitherto unknown spider species was first documented in Thailand. The researchers gave her a suitable name from the Anime One Piece
The tropical forest never ceases to surprise those who venture under its dense cover. Every leaf raised, every burrow explored, can reveal unsuspected forms of life. It is in this discreet setting, in the heart of a still unstudent region of Thailand, that an unusual specimen has arisen from the ground. Neither quite male nor fully female, this gynandromorphic spider intrigues as much as it questions biologists. A strange creature revealed by a …
Researchers identified a completely new species: Damarchus inazuma, a name inspired by a manga character One Piece capable of changing sex. The choice is not casual: one of the specimens presented a perfect bilateral division between male and female traits, a phenomenon known as gynandromorphism. (Continue reading...) La entrada Uncover in Thailand a spider half male and half female was first published in Remolacha - News Dominican Republic.
A new spider species recently discovered in a forest of Kanchanaburi, in western Thailand, is capable of gynandromorphism, an extremely rare feature by which an individual has traits of both sexes, distributed on both sides of his body. This strange peculiarity would be due to a chromosomal anomaly probably induced by various natural factors, such as parasitic infection.Belonging to the Bemmeridae family, the genus Damarchus includes mygalomorph…
Moreover, the animal belongs to a previously unknown species.
Scientists have discovered a new species of spider near the Nong Rong Forest, Panom Tuan, Kanchanaburi, in western Thailand. It has been passed on to researchers at the Museum of Natural History of the University of Chulalongkorn, where spiders have been studied in more detail, Phys.org. After studying the new species, scientists have concluded that they are probably from the family of Damarchus, a group of miglomorphic, or "dumble", spiders liv…
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