Ojiisibinaan wazichan

“Pine-tree pincher”

Kingdom
Microsynthera
Phylum
Plasticae
Class
Pseudocclupanida
Order
Brumalucidae
Family
Chimochaeridae
Genus
Ojiisibinaan
Species
O. wazichan
External morphology

Slightly filamentous outer edge. Body length 16.5 mm x 13.5 mm.

Ojiisibinaan wazichan are perennial pseudocclupanids that are observed primarily in winter. They are the second species recognized from family Chimochaeridae. Discovered and described by occlupanologist O. Ohm of FMCO (Fargo Moorhead Center for Occlupanology) who found the specimen in North Dakota . The genus name is from the Ojibwe language, “he who pinches”, while the species name is taken from the Lakota word for pine tree. O. wazichan shares the same rarified niche as C. pinicola; plastic evergreen trees with pre-installed holiday lights. The outer edge of its attenuated body has small filamentous extrusions, almost like cilia.