{"id":2364,"date":"2021-01-23T05:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=2364"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:05:51","slug":"tempotortus-malleofidus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=2364","title":{"rendered":"Tempotortus malleofidus"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/region_nearctic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=64\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ecol-watch.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60\" title=\"taxon_chron\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/taxon_chron.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1>Tempotortus malleofidus<\/h1>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<div class=\"sciname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ar_tempo_microc_scan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2350\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ar_tempo_microc_scan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ar_tempo_microc_scan.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ar_tempo_microc_scan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u201csplit-hammer time twister\u201d<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Kingdom<\/dt>\n<dd>Microsynthera<\/dd>\n<dt>Phylum<\/dt>\n<dd>Plasticae<\/dd>\n<dt>Class<\/dt>\n<dd>Lepistomella<\/dd>\n<dt>Order<\/dt>\n<dd>Chronovora<\/dd>\n<dt>Family<\/dt>\n<dd>Tempotortidae<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Genus<\/dt>\n<dd><em>Tempotortus<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>Species<\/dt>\n<dd><em>T. malleofidus<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>External morphology<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Very small, Size 7.9 mm x 6mm. Wide lateral palps along rear edge. Tiny notch inside oral groove.<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>At nearly 8mm in length, <em>T. malleofidus<\/em> is a giant among its peers in the genus <em>Tempotortus<\/em>. The small oral groove contains an even smaller incision at its center, an important marker. Discovered by amateur occlupanologist T. Reynolds, who found it attached to a wristwatch in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tempotortus malleofidus \u201csplit-hammer time twister\u201d Kingdom Microsynthera Phylum Plasticae Class Lepistomella Order Chronovora Family Tempotortidae Genus Tempotortus Species T. malleofidus External morphology Very small, Size 7.9 mm x 6mm. Wide lateral palps along rear edge. Tiny notch inside oral groove. At nearly 8mm in length, T. malleofidus is a giant among its peers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2350,"parent":4124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2364","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2364\/revisions\/4295"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}