Talk:Beania magellanica

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Zaslav in topic What is it?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk18:48, 22 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

  • ... that the colonial bryozoan Beania magellanica, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, has recently turned up in the Mediterranean Sea?

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 07:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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QPQ: Done.
Overall:   Citation for hook taken AGF. I like these species articles where they've found something new, or something in a new place. I hope you get a chance to see this in the wild? Anyway, I miss the sea, so thank you for this article. Storye book (talk) 16:28, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

What is it?

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The introduction says "Beania magellanica is a species of colonial bryozoan in the family Beaniidae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring in shallow waters in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in Antarctica." Evidently, this is some kind of marine life form. I am not a marine biologist. These sentences tell me almost nothing about this creature, except the hint ("colonial") that it forms groups of interdependent individuals,but I can't guess what that means in this species. Going to Bryozoa I discover that it is an invertebrate. I don't know from the introduction (or the highly technical article) whether it is smaller than an earthworm or larger than a rabbit. I don't know what is notable about it.

Who is supposed to get anything out of this, other than specialists? Will anyone who can, please replace the introduction by one that is meaningful to the average intelligent encyclopedia reader? Please do not tell me that I have to look at the links to understand this. That is not how an intro should work. Anyway, the crucial link, Bryozoa, is just as incomprehensible. Zaslav (talk) 06:54, 29 December 2020 (UTC)Reply