Observaciones de wood_c_016

Small orange/black/white butterfly around 2 inches. Found in a wooded area. This species is native to Florida and some Carribean islands. This organism has the distinctive pattern and coloring of the Phaon Crescent. This organism is classified as a protostome.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Phyciodes-phaon

White/gray caterpillar with hair like protrusions. Around 3 inches long. Has characteristic white fuzzy appearance. Species is common in North American. This organism is classified as a protostome.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Dasychira-meridionalis

Small flowering plant with light purple/lavender flowers, near a few other of the same plant. Less than a foot tall. Species is native to Florida. Grows in moist soils. Has characteristic complex flower structure with light purple color. This is classified as an angiosperm.

https://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Pilorigi

Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae

Small, likely adolescent, deer observed in the woods near a golf course. White Tail deer are native to North America and commonly found in the region. The coloration is light brown with white spotting on the back. This deer classifies as a deuterostome.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Genus: Odocoileus

https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/whitetaileddeer.htm

Small plant (1-2 feet tall) with bright red berries and long large leaves, found in marsh area near the Hillsborough river. It is an invasive species from East Asia that prefers moist soil. This organism has the characteristic bright red berries growing from the shrub.

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Primulaceae
Genus: Ardisia

https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fp356

Plant found covering the surface of a body of water in a swamp like area. The leaves were large, around 4-5 inches. Bright green color, rounded/oval leaves. It has characteristic thick, glossy leaves that are free floating in a body of water. It is an invasive species in the US that is native to South America.

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Commelinales
Family: Pontederiaceae
Genus: Eichhornia

http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/eichhornia-crassipes/

Observed in a marshy area near the Hillsborough river. Small and with only a few others, around a foot tall. Bright green leaves with redish brown coloration of external edge of the leaves. This organism has around 20 paired pinnae, characterisitc of the species. Found in eastern North America. This plant is seedless vascular.

Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Blechnaceae
Genus: Woodwardia

https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=wovi

Palm like plant observed in an area near the Hillsborough river a few feet in height. Radial arrangement of palm leaves and small size classify the organism as a saw palmetto. Brown stem/trunk structure with bright green leaves/palms. This species is common in the south eastern US.

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Arecales
Family: Arecaceae
Subfamily: Coryphoideae

https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=sere2

Turtle found on a tree over the Hillsborough river, less than a foot long. Dark brown and black with some lighter coloration on the head. The dark colored back with patches of yellow on the head and neck classify this organism as a yellow-bellied slider. Native to the southeastern US, found in especially high numbers in Florida and Virginia. This turtle is identified as a deuterostome.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Trachemys

https://www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com/reptiles/turtles/yellow-bellied-slider/yellow-bellied_slider.php

Dark brown lizard with spotting on all portions of the organism sitting on a tree branch close to the water, around 5 inches long. The Brown Anole is an introduced species to the southeastern United States, native to Cuba and the Bahamas. The short snout of the organism identifies it as a brown anole, combined with coloring it is differentiated from similar species. This lizard is classified as a deuterostome.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Iguania
Family: Dactyloidae
Genus: Anolis

https://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/anosag.htm

Fungi growing out of a tree trunk, cream/white color, each cluster was 3-4 inches. Flattened cylindrical teeth protruding from the underside identify this organism as Spongipellis pachyodon. Found widely distributed in eastern North America on oaks and other hard woods.

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Polyporales
Family: Polyporaceae

https://www.messiah.edu/Oakes/fungi_on_wood/poroid%20fungi/species%20pages/Spongipellis%20pachyodon.htm

Red/pink and white lichen on a small tree, circular. Roughly 6 inches in diameter

Kingdom: Fungi
Family: Arthoniaceae

The distinctive flat, crust-like formation with three distinct color regions in a radial design identifies it as Cryptothecia rubrocincta

Christmas lichen is found on rough bark and decaying wood in subtropical regions and is very common in the southeastern United States.

https://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2006.html