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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
Epic #TaxonomyFail
matthewlmiller.bsky.social Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · Jan 29
Ducks Unlimited sends a promotional sticker of a…mandarin duck?

DU’s work has benefited a lot of waterfowl species but the mandarin duck (an Asiatic duck often kept in aviaries) isn’t one of them.

Conservation communications should be done by real people, with real natural history knowledge.
Ducks Unlimited sticker with a drake mandarin duck.
January 30, 2026 at 5:07 PM
jackdashby.bsky.social
REPTILE FAIL!
South Australia has some truly gorgeous #lizards (and some truly gorgeous wines), so I'm not sure why the species on this wine is an Arabian spiny-tailed lizard! 🧐 🦎 🍷 #TaxonomyFail #WildOz #OzHerps
A bottle of Kooliburra reisling wine from Clare Valley, Australia, but with a photo of an Arabian spiny-tailed lizard
May 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
jackdashby.bsky.social
#Tasmania has its own endemic species of #parrot: the green rosella (however its scientific name is Platycercus caledonicus, due to a mix-up that led the European scientists who named it to think it came from the island of New Caledonia instead). 🦜🇦🇺
#OzBirds #birding #parrots #WildOz #TaxonomyFail
Two green rosella's sitting in a bare branch of Tasmania's deciduos beech tree. The birds have yellowish green bellies and heads, scalloped green backs with blue patches on their wings, cheeks and tails, and a red patch above their beaks.
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
arbutocrat.bsky.social
#TaxonomyFail
beebrookshire.bsky.social Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Jan 3
One of my favorite genres of Weird Tiny Mistakes in Journalism that Don't Mean Much and Amuse Only Me is this.

www.npr.org/2024/12/27/1...

I haven't listened to this yet (humph, they didn't even call me), but MOST importantly...

...the animal in the image is not a rat.

...
The Problems And Possibilities Of Rats : 1A
If you live in a U.S. city, you've likely seen a rat or two running around. According to the pest control company, Orkin, an estimated 21 million U.S. homes face rodent invasions, each fall. But rats ...
www.npr.org
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
wisconsinbugguy.bsky.social
Screams in entomologist....what the actual Fulgorid? If the article is as horribly inaccurate as as the photo, we're all doomed...

#Entomology #TaxonomyFail #AIisGarbage
A photo from commercial tree care business reportedly showing sawfly larvae. The photo used by the company is AI generated and is grossly inaccurate with many erroneous anatomical features.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
rkellerp.bsky.social
Taxonomy fail: yes, Diacamma ants (pictured) occur in Asia's tropical regions, but they are not related to Colobopsis exploding ants, apart of also happening to be ants.

#taxonomyFail
Southeast Asia’s Exploding Ant Dies So Its Colony Can Live — A Biologist Explains
Meet the exploding ant, a tiny warrior hidden deep in the forests of Borneo. Their astonishing act of self-destruction unleashes a toxic blast, stopping predators in their tracks and redefining the tr...
www.forbes.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
jackdashby.bsky.social
A curious-looking "ringtail #possum" in the Australian jungle diorama at the Natural History Museum in #Bucharest (it's actually a ringtail racoon from North America). #whoops 🦝
#TaxonomyFail #taxidermy
A taxidermy ringtail - a species of racoon with a brown body anchor black and white rings along its bushy tail The label from the Australian jungle display, with a photo of the specimen. It's reads: COMMON RINGTAIL POSSUM Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785) Distribution Australia and Tasmania. Conservation Status Protected species. Biology The common narme comes from the tip of the tail, which is always curled like a ring. The fur is dense and soft with woolly hairs. The color is grayish-brown on the back and white-yellowish on the underside of the bady. During the day, they curl up with their heads on their bellies in nests made of branches and lined with leaves, or sometimes in tree hollows. When moving on branches, the tail does not leave its old position until the forelimbs grasp a new branch. Their diet is entirely plant-based Longevity is 3.5 years in the wild and 5 years in captivity
June 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
sifolinia.bsky.social
Somehow, I suspect this *wasn't* the thought process:

"Hmm, we need a picture for this article, but electric #ants are too small and boring. Let's use a picture of weaver ants instead."

#taxonomyfail

www.connexionfrance.com/news/electri...
Electric ants spotted in south of France for second time
Fears of a large colony in the Var department and beyond, as aggressive animals threaten pets and local biodiversity
www.connexionfrance.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:39 PM
benjyhere.bsky.social
@theguardian.com those are neither ants nor bees. #TaxonomyFail
February 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
ecostanley.bsky.social
Oh dear. Not a lizard. Also ‘air vents look like gills’ - not a fish #taxonomyfail
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 AM
terngirl.bsky.social
ATTN @TaxonomyHulk another film #TAXONOMYFAIL - one humped camels in Mongolian Desert scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind #urgh
February 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
terngirl.bsky.social
MT “@james_gilbert: Fail generic chiffchaff in all British movies set outside anywhere, in any season #TAXONOMYFAIL #ecofail”
February 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
terngirl.bsky.social
Aaarrrrrggghhh! Not quite a #TaxonomyFail but close enough. New illustrated edition of the #Hobbit has bald eagles :( http://t.co/pHqJAj2Zho
February 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
terngirl.bsky.social
Sounds like a #taxonomyfail to me! Time for @TaxonomyHulk!
February 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
terngirl.bsky.social
Oi! @abcnews you are using a picture of a YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN instead of a LITTLE PENGUIN! #ornithology #taxonomyfail "Tasmanian penguin drownings prompt calls for state ban on recreational gillnet fishing"...
February 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
terngirl.bsky.social
NOT A SPECIES!! #taxonomyfail ⁦@TaxonomyHulk⁩ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/23/with-a-little-help-from-its-relatives-hybrid-plan-to-save-helmeted-honeyeater-from-extinction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Inbreeding crisis: hybrid helmeted honeyeaters introduced...
Only 230 of the sub-species remain in the wild, a populat...
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
chrisleduck.bsky.social
Hmmm 🤔 #TaxonomyFail
January 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
#TaxonomyFail: Salps, Jellyfish, and the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant http://nblo.gs/x6iHj
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January 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
#TaxonomyFail: Salps and Jellyfish: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13011 Find a worse taxonomy fail by the media than this one, and win a prize!
#TaxonomyFail: Salps, Jellyfish, and the Diablo Canyon Nu...
I’m a bit late to the party, but last week, several news ...
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Salps, Jellyfish and Diablo Canyon: http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=13011 Find a worse #TaxonomyFail and you could win a prize!
#TaxonomyFail: Salps, Jellyfish, and the Diablo Canyon Nu...
I’m a bit late to the party, but last week, several news ...
www.southernfriedscience.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
#TaxonomyFail: Salps, Jellyfish, and the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (from 2012) http://buff.ly/24EF5DO
#TaxonomyFail: Salps, Jellyfish, and the Diablo Canyon Nu...
I’m a bit late to the party, but last week, several news ...
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December 18, 2024 at 6:02 AM
lamamala.bsky.social
Não chama cochonilha de besouro não, parça. #taxonomyfail <a href="http://cozinhabruta.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/02/28/voce-daria-bolo-de-besouro-para-o-seu-filho/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://cozinhabruta.blogfolha.uol.com.br/2018/02/28/voce-daria-bolo-de-besouro-para-o-seu-filho/
Você daria bolo de insetos para o seu filho? - Cozinha Bruta
Comida de verdade, receitas e papo sobre gastronomia com ...
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November 9, 2024 at 6:54 AM
lamamala.bsky.social
Anuncio de adocao com #taxonomyfail. Pink e Cerebro eram ratos, porra
November 9, 2024 at 6:54 AM
lamamala.bsky.social
O maior #taxonomyfail do marketing empreendedor do BR é os fdp montar barraca de açaí gourmet e chamar de OAK berry! Açai nao dá em carvalho porra!!
November 9, 2024 at 6:49 AM
lamamala.bsky.social
Também descobri que na Ilha do Sulito se chama lagartixa de "jacaré de parede". Só não adoto pois muito #taxonomyfail
November 8, 2024 at 10:37 PM