Template:Did you know nominations/Eulalia viridis
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:12, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
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Eulalia viridis[edit]
- ... that the green worm Eulalia viridis does not breed until it is at least two years old? Source: "They breed when they are at least 2 years old and are polytelic."
- Reviewed: Angelo De Donatis
5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Hanberke (talk). Nominated by Cwmhiraeth (talk) at 10:21, 28 July 2017 (UTC).
@Cwmhiraeth: New enough, long enough, no apparent copyvios, QPQ done. Sources check out. Two non-QPQ issues:
- 1) It's nice when citations cite to a specific page (e.g., 147 for the one in question), rather than the article (here, 145–147). Makes it easier to find.
- 2) How long do the things live for? I have no sense whether a 2 year old worm is ancient or adolescent, so an age expectancy would give more of a bearing. --Usernameunique (talk) 12:21, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Usernameunique: As regards your first point, most of the information comes from p.147, but some comes from p.145. As to your second point, an amazing amount of information is unknown about most species because those aspects have not been studied. For longevity, you would need to keep animals alive in the lab and see how long they survived, and it would not necessarily reflect conditions in the wild anyway. However many invertebrates in temperate regions have an annual cycle, grow fast, mature, breed and die, so I thought two years before reproducing was quite impressive. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:05, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Cwmhiraeth: Good points. I agree that two years sounds impressive. Because it seemed long I went into the article wondering how long such a worm lives in total and didn't see an answer, hence my asking you. But I understand your point that the information is not missing from the article; rather, the information is not known.
- Page specific citations work when there are separate references and bibliography sections (e.g., as the Guilden Morden boar article has), but otherwise it just gets clunky. --Usernameunique (talk) 13:31, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Usernameunique: As regards your first point, most of the information comes from p.147, but some comes from p.145. As to your second point, an amazing amount of information is unknown about most species because those aspects have not been studied. For longevity, you would need to keep animals alive in the lab and see how long they survived, and it would not necessarily reflect conditions in the wild anyway. However many invertebrates in temperate regions have an annual cycle, grow fast, mature, breed and die, so I thought two years before reproducing was quite impressive. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:05, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
