An anomalous terrestrial foliose lichen (<em>Aberratus uittathallus</em> gen. and sp. nov., Peltigerales: family <em>incertae sedis</em>) from southern Yukon, northwest Canada
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Abstract
A previously unreported lichen (Aberratus uittathallus sp. nov.) with peculiar characteristics is described. Its foliose growth form, cyanobiont, and homoiomerous, gelatin-rich medulla were most consistent with membership in the order Peltigerales, although it is not an obvious member of a known family. Its size (66 cm long) and off-white, ribbon-like thallus, which becomes shrunken, translucent, brittle, hydrophobic, light tan, and ostensibly dead when dried, are anomalous characteristics of lichens in general. No means of reproduction was identified, except possibly fragmentation. The organism’s anomalous characteristics, distribution on the type locality, and rarity were hypothesized to represent the results of a recent fortuitous lichenization.En este trabajo se describe el liquen (Aberratus uittathallus sp. nov.), que no se había reportado anteriormente y que posee características muy peculiares. El tipo de crecimiento folioso, y la médula cianobionte y homoimérica rica en gelatina son más compatibles con el orden Peltigerales, si bien no se reconoce como miembro de una familia conocida. Su tamaño (66 cm de largo) y su talo blanquecino en forma de cinta, que se encoge, se vuelve translúcido, quebradizo, e hidrófobo, de color tostado claro y aparenta estar muerto cuando se seca, son características anómalas de los líquenes en general. No se identificó ningún medio de reproducción, con excepción de la posible fragmentación. Hipotetizamos que las características anómalas del organismo, su distribución en la localidad tipo y su rareza representan los resultados de una liquenización fortuita reciente.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".