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Ojiisibinaan wazichan
- 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.