Ovaskella ovaskae Shear & Richart & Wong 2020, new species
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ovaskella ovaskae, new species Figs. 86–91 Types: Male holotype and male paratype from BRITISH COLUMBIA: SGang Gwaay, (Anthony Island), Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), SGang Gwaay UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic Site, elev. 15 m., 52.0980°N, - 131.2164°W, 15 September 2004, K. Ovaska, L. Sopuk. Diagnosis: Distinct from the other species of the genus in bearing obvious paranota on most metazonites, and lacking femoral knobs on any pregonopodal legs. The paranotal character is shared by two other British Columbia species, Vancouvereuma shawi (Shear), 2004 and Karagama lupus (Shear), 2004. Vancouvereuma shawi, however, has gonopods similar to Taiyutyla jonesi, and K. lupus has bifid gonopods with subequal branches; both of these species have more complicated posterior gonopod coxites than O. ovaskae. Etymology: We name this species for Kristiina Ovaska, Victoria, British Columbia, the collector. Description: Paratype male from SGang Gwaay: Length, 12.0 mm. 21 ocelli in triangular eyepatch. Metazonites with well-developed paranota, in place of rounded shoulders, on metazonites 6–25; two outermost segmental setae on anterior and posterior corners of paranotum. Color dark brown to chestnut brown. Legpairs one and two reduced, three to seven enlarged, mesal knobs lacking on all pregonopodal legs, but femora three to five more strongly bowed than six and seven. Anterior gonopods (Figs. 86, 89) slender, with anterior midlength knob bearing coarse teeth, apical process bifurcate with subterminal anterior lamella. Posterior gonopod coxites (Figs. 87, 88, 90, 91) with basal portion of prefemur set off by distinct groove, coxite much simplified, lacking fimbriate branches or areas. Legpair 10 coxae of normal size, with small glands, legpair 11 femora with long, thin, dorsally directed knobs. Female 12.0 mm long, similar to male in nonsexual characters. Distribution: Only known from the type locality. Note: The former Queen Charlotte Islands, more than 150 mountainous islands off the west coast of British Columbia, are now known as Haida Gwaii. These islands are protected as the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. SGang Gwaay, or Ninstints, is a village abandoned by the Haida nation in 1880 and is now recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The region may have escaped glaciation during the Wisconsinan, and hosts a remarkable array of endemic species, such that it is sometimes called the “Canadian Galápagos,” but its soil and litter fauna has been little explored.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.009 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".