Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/739749

#Morphology #Ecomorphs #EEB

Spotted in the wild: an outstanding backformation from an L2 English speaker who knows what's what in English derivational morphology!

(this is the kind of 'error' you can only make if you've got the -ation/-tion ambiguity that also has produced 'conversate')

#clarificate #morphology #English @linguistics

5yo: I ever let you sing!
Us: why won’t you let us sing?
5yo: no, I’ll *ever* let you sing!

#parenting #English #overgeneration #morphology #backDerivation #linguistics

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116260383338896477

#Endemic #species are always interesting from different perspectives, e.g. from an #evolutionary and #ecological point of view. This also applies to #skinks of the genus
#Madascincus, being with several known species endemic to #Madagascar.
A. Miralles et al. (2026) described based on #multilocus #phylogenetics and #morphology two #newspecies:
M. #irery and M.
#minotaurus, with restricted distributions to limited areas of Madagascar only.
© this text #StefanFWirth

Although I am easily distracted, it is never for nought. Today, I've been thinking of the orthography and morphology of Parsifal whilst trying to decide which version to run with.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/parsifals-drifting-name?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

My first 'real' encounter with Perceval was Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished version, but Wagner's version seems to have stuck with me.

#bliog #philosophy #language #spelling #variation #substack #writing #linguistics #orthography #morphology #Parsifal #FisherKing

New on Dryad: "A new species from an inselberg in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: Stachytarpheta forzzae (Verbenaceae), supported by morphological, palynological and anatomical evidence"

🔍 Explore the dataset on Dryad: bit.ly/47fUQIB

📖 Read the article in the Nordic Journal of Botany from our partners at Nordic Society Oikos & Wiley: bit.ly/3Nk00MY

#opendata #researchdata #botany #morphology #researchintegrity #datasharing #openscience #biology #brazil #flora

Funny thing, algorithms.
I replaced

performanceID

with

performerID

and if I were marking the change manually,
it would be:

-perform[-ance-]ID
+perform{+er+}ID

but in fact it is:

-perform[-anc-]eID
+performe{+r+}ID

(obviously...).

[Typos corrected.]

#Diff
#Morphology
#SoftwareTools

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116022519007902519

Beetles of the genus #Cheironitis (#Scarabaeinae) are characterized by a strikingly #robust #morphology in the #adults, while the larvae usually resemble cockchafer grubs. These are #dungbeetles that exhibit #broodcare. They are widespread in #arid regions of the #Palearctic and #Afrotropical regions. YuHeng Wang et al. (2025) described, i.a., the new species C. #aiweiae from #ShirenGou (Xinjiang Uygur). #Biodiversityresearch © this text #StefanFWirth