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Small Taxonomy Pools
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When it comes to taxonomy, few of us outside of the related fields know how many species it covers (taxonomists estimate there have been hundreds of millions of species of life forms on this planet up to now, an estimated 8.7 million of which are alive today). The number of species we are familiar with makes up less than 1% of even the known species. Thus fiction will end up showing a few stock species, due to that familiarity. Some groups of plants and animals can have thousands of known species, and fiction will only mention about two. Often this results in Misplaced Wildlife, as the particular species shown wouldn't live in a certain place, but we wouldn't know of the other species that do (unless the writers are showing their work). There is also a bit of a sliding scale. On the low end, entire phyla (aka divisions in botany) can have just one or two species represented. On the high end, a single family can have more than half a dozen species commonly shown. This is regardless of the actual number of species per group. Filming on location can produce a fair sampling of the local flora, including the species no one much has heard of, but the plants named will still come from a small pool. Often this trope is because a particular species is featured in a work that puts that species in the popular consciousness, but there are other causes. Many kinds of creatures are rarely seen in fiction because they are just as rarely seen in real life. (When was the last time you met a caecilian, mantis shrimp, or a tuatara?) A Sub-Trope of Small Reference Pools. Contrast Improbable Taxonomy Skills, the ability to fully classify an organism with just a cursory examination. |
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Acanthuriformes. Most tropical fish depictions appear to be some sort of angelfish, butterflyfish, or tang. The regal tang has become popular due to Finding Nemo The Moorish idol and the rabbitfishes are less common, and the sicklefishes, boarfishes, and louvar are nonexistent. | |
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The only bandicoots (Paramelemorphia) in fiction are Crash Bandicoot and his companions. The only two bilbies in fiction are the titular characters of Bilby and Boj. Mention should be made, however, of an Australian substitute for the Easter Bunny, the "Easter Bilby". | |
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Impressively averted in Moyashimon, which name-checks a number of bacteria and viruses, as well as a number of yeasts and other one-celled organisms. | |
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Jurassic World has the only notable appearance of a mosasaur in fiction (although they are common in paleo-documentaries). Aigialosaurs and Dolichosaurs, on the other hand, are entirely nonexistent. | |
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Turacos (order Musophagiformes) have a very small handful of appearances: The Go-away-Bird (White-bellied Go-away-bird) 3rd & Bird, and The Lion Guard (both great blue turacos). | |
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Edible mushrooms might be mentioned by name, such as morels or shiitake. Poisonous ones are invariably called "toadstools" or just "poisonous mushroom" even though there are an awful lot of mycotoxin-containing species. If one is mentioned, it will probably be the destroying angel simply because it has the most badass name ever. Not coincidentally it's one of the most toxic and most easily misidentified mushrooms in the wild. In The Dresden Files book "Grave Peril" Jim Butcher gets it exactly right with his description of how eating a destroying angel will kill you. He even gets the antidote spot-on, which is kind of justified. Some are ridiculously hard to identify without specialized equipment and even mycologists are known to argue about which are which. This is also very culturally dependent. East European and Asian cuisine uses a lot more mushrooms than Western or American, so people from the former areas are likely to be able to identify a much longer list of edible species and (if they're the type to go mushroom hunting themselves) to be able to recognize poisonous ones. However this can backfire horribly if they move if they move to Western countries as several very poisonous varieties native to Western countries strongly resemble edible fungi from their original locales. | |
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Don't expect to see non-simian primates much. If a lemur shows up, it will usually be of the ring-tailed variety (although you have a slim chance of seeing an aye-aye, especially in educational works, and sifakas are becoming popular thanks to Zoboomafoo). Works set in Africa occasionally mention galagos (also known as bushbabies). Tarsiers are very occasionally shown. Lorises (specifically the slow lorises) are recently becoming more popular, but the related pottos are out of luck. | |
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Meridiungulata, an extinct clade of ungulates endemic to South America including orders Pyrotheria, Astrapotheria, Notoungulata, and Litopterna, are practically never shown in fiction, aside from the horse-like litoptern Macrauchenia, featured on Walking with Beasts, and the hippo-like notoungulate Toxodon, featured on Prehistoric Park . | |
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The spiky-headed Dracorex hogwartsia is also notable as one of the few dinosaurs named for a pop culture reference, although the genus is now considered a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus. The validity of the Stygimoloch genus name on the other hand is something that is still debated, stratigraphic evidence shows Pachycephalosaurus mostly being found on lower layers and Stygimoloch mostly found from upper layers, and unpublished specimens of adult sized Stygimoloch point towards the possibility that Stygimoloch is a distinct species from Pachycephalosaurus.note However since the Pachycephalosaurus genus was named first its name takes priority over the Stygimoloch genus name, which would result in the name changing from S.spinifer to P. spinifer. | |
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The only notable grebe (order Podicipediformes) is an entirely fictitious species (the "Green-tailed Grebe" in Arthur). | |
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Sauropods (order Saurischia, suborder Sauropodomorpha) are represented by Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Brachiosaurus. Camarasaurus, Saltasaurus, Amargasaurus, Barosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Argentinosaurus, Alamosaurus, and Supersaurus if you're lucky. "Prosauropods" will always be Plateosaurus, and even that's pushing it (although Dino of The Flintstones fame loosely resembles this group). | |
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The order Bucerotiformes was formerly grouped with Coraciiformes. The Lion King (1994) has the only notable appearance of a bucerotiform in fiction (Zazu the hornbill). While the Eurasian Hoopoe is somewhat well-known in the Middle East and Mediterranean Europe, it makes only occasional appearances in popular culture. | |
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! If they need a large, land-based predator, 90% of the time it will be one of those. | |
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The best-known species of the family Mephitidae (formerly included in Mustelidae) and the only one likely to appear in a work is the striped skunk. Spotted skunks come in a very distant second (due their appearances in Wild Kratts and generic forest animal toy packs, as well as their known habit of doing handstands). Hog-nosed skunks only appear once or twice in popular culture, and hooded skunks and stink badgers are never featured. | |
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Basal archosaurs (obsolete order Thecodontia) only appear in more educational or scientific works. Besides Postosuchus in Walking with Dinosaurs, the only one you are likely to see is Euparkeria due to its historical status as "the ancestor of the later archosaurs". | |
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You probably won't find horseshoe crabs (class Merostomata), sea spiders (class Pycnogonida), pseudoscorpions (order Pseudoscorpiones), whip scorpions (order Thelyphonida), mites (order Acari), tickspiders (order Ricinulei), sun spiders (order Solifugae), or anything other than spiders, scorpions and maybe ticks featured in fiction. You probably won't even get an acknowledgement that "arachnid" is anything other than a fancy synonym for "eight-legged thing". | |
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The crinoids, or sea lilies (class Crinoidea), are totally unheard of, except for Pokémon's Cradily. | |
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Rabbits (order Lagomorpha) sometimes get lumped in with rodents, but this is wrong. If you see a lagomorph, it's probably going to either be a standard cottontail, European Rabbit, or white domestic rabbit if it's a rabbit; or a jackrabbit or Brown Hare if it's a hare. "Rabbit" and "hare" will often be treated as synonymous (though some rabbits are closer to hares, hares are highly derived and distinctive leporids). Hardly anyone ever talks about pikas in fiction, unless it is joined to a '-chu'. | |
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The platypus (family Ornithorhynchidae) is the only monotreme showing up in fiction. The hedgehog-like echidnas (family Tachyglossidae) are rarely (if ever) heard of, even in documentaries. An exception is made for fiction in which Australia is the main location. Or in the Sonic fandom. | |
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Sandgrouse (order Pterocliformes) are scarce even in educational works; one appeared in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!. | |
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Barnacles (subclass Maxillopoda) are crustaceans as well, but they're usually only shown as "that stuff that covers rocks, ships and whales". Or as being so ugly that everyone died. Speaking of maxillopods in SpongeBob SquarePants, Plankton is likely the only copepod you will ever find in fiction. | |
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Dilophosaurus, another dinosaur made famous due to the Jurassic Park franchise, in particular the first book and movie. Living in North America around 190 million years ago (so Early Jurassic), it was one of the first large theropods that ever appeared. It was named for the distinct pair of parallel crests on its head, and was about 18 feet long, weighting around 500 kgs. It will often be inaccurately depicted as more human-sized, spitting venom and resembling a frilled-necked lizard, thanks to Spielberg and Crichton. It was long thought to have an extremely weak and fragile jaw, but a reanalysis conducted in 2021 determined that this was incorrect and that the animal actually had a much more robust skull and a bite capable of breaking bone, which along with a lung structure similar to modern birds giving it a high metabolic rate meant that it was an energetic, apex predator. | |
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There are lobsters, crabs and shrimp (order Decapoda). Crabs are almost always one of hermit crabs, blue crabs, or Alaskan king crabs. Lobsters are typically the familiar species of the genus Homarus (although Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Persona 5 both have spiny lobsters), and to make matters worse, especially in animation, they're bright red (live lobsters are brownish-green; they only turn red when they're cooked). Shrimps are also often colored either pink or orange in advertising, even if they're supposedly alive. In The Deep South or during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, you may encounter crawfish. They will be boiled, bright red and an excellent reason to have a beer (they're very spicy when prepared Cajun-style). | |
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Likely have the widest variety in fiction. Before Jurassic Park, however, works were unlikely to show anything beyond sauropods, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus rex, ceratopsians, ankylosaurs, and hadrosaurs. And then that movie added Velociraptor (or rather an oversized generic dromaeosaurid with the name Velociraptor slapped on it) to the stock roster. They almost never get properly depicted with feathers. The third Jurassic Park movie made Spinosaurus popular (it was indeed longer than Tyrannosaurus), but the fact that it was really a weak-jawed aquatic piscivore that could not, and did not have to, compete with the large terrestrial theropods is likely to be ignored (More recent discoveries have shown Spinosaurus to be even more aquatic, with short hind legs and a paddle-like tail, but, as always, popular culture is slow to adjust). If you get more specific, the taxonomy pools become smaller: Basal saurischians (order Saurischia) are limited to Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor. Large theropods (order Saurischia, suborder Theropoda) are usually T. rex, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, or sometimes Dilophosaurus. Less, commonly, Ceratosaurus, Megalosaurus, Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Baryonyx, Suchomimus, or Carnotaurus will appear. Yutyrannus has been recently gaining some popularity due to being the largest known dinosaur to have preserved direct evidence of feathers. Birdlike theropods are mostly represented by dromaeosaurs (namely Deinonychus or Velociraptor, though Dromaeosaurus, Utahraptor, and Microraptor show up occasionally), Archaeopteryx, and ornithomimids (Ornithomimus, Struthiomimus, or Gallimimus, with Dromiceiomimus [possibly synonymous with Ornithomimus] occasionally appearing in older works). Oviraptor and Stenonychosaurus (a name that generally appears in older works, as until quite recently, it had been classified as Troodon, the name which it is still commonly referred to now, but once again, Science Marches On). Therizinosaurus is getting popular due to its Wolverine Claws as well being a theropod that's herbivorous as opposed to carnivorous, though it's still not quite common in media. Non-birdlike small theropods are uncommon. Coelophysis and Compsognathus, if you're lucky (you might see Ornitholestes in older works and Sinosauropteryx in newer works, but don't hold your breath). Sauropods (order Saurischia, suborder Sauropodomorpha) are represented by Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Brachiosaurus. Camarasaurus, Saltasaurus, Amargasaurus, Barosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Argentinosaurus, Alamosaurus, and Supersaurus if you're lucky. "Prosauropods" will always be Plateosaurus, and even that's pushing it (although Dino of The Flintstones fame loosely resembles this group). The only basal ornithischians (order Ornithischia) you might see are Lesothosaurus and Heterodontosaurus, but even those are rare. The only stegosaur (order Ornithischia, suborder Stegosauria) is Stegosaurus (although Kentrosaurus is semi-common in edutainment works). The only ankylosaur (order Ornithischia, suborder Ankylosauria) that frequently appears is Ankylosaurus, although older works will sometimes use Euoplocephalus or Scolosaurusnote formely synonymous with Euoplocephalus until 2013 instead (the anatomy of Ankylosaurus itself was poorly known until 2004). Nodosaurids, which are practically unheard of outside of educational works, will usually be Nodosaurus, Edmontonia, Polacanthus, Sauropelta, or Gastonia. There are two main ceratopsids (order Ornithischia, suborder Ceratopsia): Triceratops and Styracosaurus (although older works will sometimes use Centrosaurus). More rarely, Torosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and Pachyrhinosaurus may show up. More basal ceratopsians are rarely heard of (Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus, and only in edutainment works). Pachycephalosaurs (order Ornithischia, suborder Pachycephalosauria) aren't quite as commonly seen as their ceratopsian cousins; they will basically always be Pachycephalosaurus and use their head to smash everyone they see. Stegoceras occasionally pops up in older works. Hadrosaurs (order Ornithischia, suborder Ornithopoda) are usually represented by Parasaurolophus or Edmontosaurus/Anatosaurus (whatever name it's referred to as), and neither is likely to be named (Corythosaurus and Lambeosaurus used to be somewhat common, and Maiasaura will occasionally appear in modern works). Non-hadrosaur ornithopods are pretty much only represented by Iguanodon (you might see Camptosaurus, Dryosaurus, Hypsilophodon, Muttaburrasaurus, Ouranosaurus, and Orodromeus if you're really lucky). The only exception is Tenontosaurus, which frequently appears in educational works as the prey of Deinonychus. |
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When we think of bears (Ursidae), we think of the brown or grizzly, the American black bear, the polar bear, and the giant panda (which has been found to genetically actually be a bearnote In case you are wondering, it was long believed giant pandas were actually procyonids, due to their similarity to the red panda. It turns out bears and raccoons had a relatively recent common ancestor, just that pandas are more similar in some ways to that hypothetical ancestor.). Spectacled bears arguably have just one notable representative (Paddington Bear, who came from "Darkest Peru", where the spectacled bear is native) despite being the closest relative to the giant short-faced bears, which, along with the commonly confused cave bear.is common in works set in the Ice Age. Asian black bears (“moon bears�) mainly appear in Asian works, and sun bears and sloth bears are exceedingly rare. Baloo of The Jungle Book fame is almost always depicted as a brown bear rather than the geographically accurate sloth bear, with even the original book calling him a "sleepy old brown bear". Oddly, The Jungle Book (2016) calls him a sloth bear, but he still looks like a brown bear. | |
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Malagasy carnivorans (Eupleridae) are nearly unheard of thanks to lemurs stealing the spotlight; the most popular one is the lemur-eating fossa (several of which appear in Madagascar), but even that's pushing it. Good luck finding a ring-tailed vontsira or a fanaloka outside of All Hail King Julien. | |
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Of the cetaceans (former order Cetacea, now a suborder of Artiodactyla), we have the generic dolphin (usually a common bottlenose thanks to Flipper), orca/killer whale, humpback whale, sperm whale (used to be the most common depicted whale likely because its oil made it the most valuable to whalers, so this is an association that dropped due to Values Dissonance), and blue whale, pretty much in that order. A character pointing out that killer whales aren't whales is a trope in itself. Never mind that toothed whales (sperm whales, killer whales, bottlenose dolphins) are all more closely related to each other than baleen whales (humpback whales, blue whales); therefore, orcas are both dolphins and whales? "Porpoise" will be treated as a synonym for "dolphin". Narwhals will occasionally appear, and if they do they will always have tusks, even if they're supposed to be female. Don't expect to see too many freshwater dolphins, and chances are, they will be the Amazon's pink river dolphins. Beaked whales, considering their elusive and poorly-known nature, are unsurprisingly not present. Unless you're watching a documentary, don't expect to see the whales' land-based ancestors (Pakicetus and Basilosaurus were traditionally the most common in educational works, but the former has slowly been replaced by the more completely known Ambulocetus, or the "walking whale"). | |
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Pelicans are easily the most familiar members of the order Pelecaniformes. The other members, which were formerly in Ciconiiformes, are less familiar but still appear sometimes. The Shoebill, often incorrectly referred to as the "shoebill stork", has become famous in Japan since its debut in zoos there, due to its comically menacing appearance, and in recent years has made several appearances in anime and games. The related Hamerkop has only appeared once, in The Lion Guard. Herons appear with some frequency, usually as background birds in wetland settings. Don't expect to see ibises or spoonbills. When ibises do appear, it's generally in the following 3 circumstances; the Scarlet Ibis in the tropical Americas, the Australian Ibis ("bin chicken") in the context of an Australian urban setting and feeding on garbage, and the African Sacred Ibis in the context of Ancient Egypt. | |
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Despite there being a large number of sea cucumbers (class Holothuroidea) available to choose from, they remain incredibly unpopular, appearing only to produce the occasional gag (being literal cucumbers on Spongebob Squarepants or spewing sticky white goo on a girl). | |
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