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Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan

Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.

This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?

The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.

A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3

A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM

First time to find velvet worm in my life.
The first photo is a homage to my friend @invertebratist.
Native beech forest in South Canterbury. Under a rotten log beside to walking track.
Probably this is 'Dunedin' peripatus.
15 pairs legs and brown based colors.
This is one of big happen in my life. I am very glad to found this crazy cool creature.

Common on the fronds of Xiphophora gladiata (see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20525499) in rock pools exposed at low tide mark. Not incidentally a moth but a brown seaweed associated with Xiphophora.

NEW ZEALAND AK
Site: 129 Laingholm Drive, Number: 00013
Trap: 1A-3B
Date: 19.VI.2007
Coll. J.T. Pusateri

Identification: Uropoda thorpei Kontschán, 2012.

25 mm long. 2nd image shows a second individual with its egg masses with embryos up to 500 microns in longest dimension deposited singly in capsules 550 x 505 microns. Eggs this large will develop ametamorphically into hatching juveniles.

Scanned from a print from 35 mm film I took in 2005. I originally posted these images (as Spurilla macleayi) on the Sea Slug Forum:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14713

Coenocorypha barrierensis
North Island Snipe
Holotype
Collected prior to 1871
Collected by: Bennett
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-125988

Varicorbula yokoyamai Habe, 1949 from Taean, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

While single valves of this species are seldom found in the beach drift in Taean, I was fortunate enough to discover a pair once during high tide.
It was a surprise for me when I first found it in Taean as this species has been officially reported exclusively from Jeju Island

Collected, photographed by Doyeon Kim