{"id":595,"date":"2011-11-28T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=595"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:54:06","slug":"mexican-cave-dweller-named-for-dr-shear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2011\/11\/28\/mexican-cave-dweller-named-for-dr-shear\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican cave-dweller named for Dr. Shear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Gonzalo Giribet at Harvard University has named a new genus of cave-dwelling harvestman from Mexico for Dr. William Shear of the Hampden-Sydney Biology department. \u00a0The new genus goes by the name of <em>Shearogovea,<\/em> combining Dr. Shear&#8217;s name with &#8220;-ogovea,&#8221; a combining stem used in the group of harvestmen to which the new genus belongs.<\/p>\n<p>The new genus contains only one species, <em>Shearogovea mexasca <\/em>(Shear), found in a few caves in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. \u00a0The species is eyeless, pale and long-legged&#8211;typical for cave-dwelling or troglobiotic animals. \u00a0<em>Shearogovea mexasca<\/em> was originally described in 1977 by Dr. Shear, who placed it in a different genus, while admitting that it probably didn&#8217;t belong there. \u00a0Dr. Giribet was able to establish, through extensive observations, that the species was so isolated from all its possible relatives that it deserved a genus name of its own. \u00a0While new species are frequently discovered by biologists, the discovery of a new genus happens far less often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Gonzalo Giribet at Harvard University has named a new genus of cave-dwelling harvestman from Mexico for Dr. William Shear of the Hampden-Sydney Biology department. \u00a0The new genus goes by the name of Shearogovea, combining Dr. Shear&#8217;s name with &#8220;-ogovea,&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2011\/11\/28\/mexican-cave-dweller-named-for-dr-shear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}