#lol you're a fish.

[omg-snakes]

I was under the impression that corn snakes are rat snakes, and therefore are the same species. But the talk about a hybrid between them has confused me a bit. Are corn snakes rat snakes or a different species?

Hey friend!

So okay, yes, corn snakes are rat snakes. Rat snakes, however, are not a single species but many distinct genera of colubrid snakes!

Let's back up a second and talk taxonomy. Humans love love love sorting and classifying things. We simply adore grouping by color and size, giving different things different names, and ranking in general! Sorting and separating is not always a good thing when it leads to some things (or people) being classified as "good" or "bad" or "better," but in scientific context sorting and naming helps us to better understand our natural world.

There's a problem with naming things, though. Different groups of people tend to give distinct things similar names. Like if a group of folks on the North American continent see a snake eating a rat, they might call it a rat snake. Another group of folks wandering around in Southeast Asia see a totally different and unrelated snake that is eating a rat and they call their snake a rat snake also. So now we've got two rat snakes. Are they the same species? Do they have the same habits, size, genetic composition, etc.? When you say "rat snake" which one are you talking about?? This is why scientific names are important.

To unify scientific research and communication, we have developed the basic classifications of living things: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. There are also sub groups of these groups but we try to keep it simple when we can!

The most basic unit, species, refers to a group of organisms in which any two individuals of appropriate mating types can produce fertile offspring. Species are given a two-part binomial name, sort of like the first and last names that humans often use to describe ourselves and our relationships to others. Scientific names are in Latin, which is a dead language that nobody uses anymore so it's not changing as living languages do. The first part of a binomial name is the genus, which describes the generic group to which a living thing belongs. Genera are capitalized. The second part, the species, is a specific epithet that applies to those organisms within the genus that are more like each other than other members of the genus. Species are not capitalized. Usually, members of a species will only mate and produce fertile offspring with other members of their same species. This is often because they are geographically or behaviorally separated from members of other closely-related species. Is this a perfect system? No. We're still learning every day and taxonomic organizations are revised and updated constantly!

Back to the corn snake/rat snake thing, here's the scientific classification for corn snakes:

Kingdom: Animalia - multicellular, eukaryotic organisms that consume organic material and breathe oxygen

Phylum: Chordata - animals with a notochord (aka: OG backbone)

Class: Reptilia - all reptiles except birds

Order: Squamata - scaled reptiles including lizards and snakes

Suborder: Serpentes - snakes!

Family: Colubridae - "typical" snakes, kind of a wastebasket taxon of snake that aren't special enough to put in their own family. :( Rat snakes are in here!

Tribe: Lampropeltini - colubrid snakes of North and South America

Genus: Pantherophis - nonvenomous snakes endemic to North America

Species: guttatus - corn snake

As you can see from the above, when we talk about "rat snakes" we're referring to a bunch of "typical" snakes in Family Colubridae that span the continents of North and South America and Asia.

To put that in context: You, a human bean, are in Family Hominidae, which includes the great apes including orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans.

Some more closely-related species, such as those in the same tribe, can reproduce and result in offspring. Corn snakes can hybridize with many other snake genera in Tribe Lampropeltini including Pituophis (gopher, pine, and bullsnakes) and Lampropeltis (king snakes), as well as other species of Pantherophis including Texas and Everglades rat snakes. Some of these resulting offspring will even be fertile to a degree!

Sooooooo the TL;DR is that corn snakes are considered rat snakes, yes, but rat snakes are not a single species or even a single genera, but instead a blanket term that applies to a huge variety of both closely- and distantly-related snakes that live across the globe and all, by coincidence, sometimes eat rats.

#Did that part about birds mess you up? #lol birds are reptiles #and we're all fish #lol you're a fish. #lol taxonomy is whack I love it #taxonomy #snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #long post #text post #oh i'm sorry did you want an answer here have a novel #thank you for coming to my Ted talk #anyway here's wonderwall

[books-books-smolderinglooks]

Happy boys smiling at each other... ❤️❤️

For the lovely Fishnanen @plantbasedfish. 💜🌼 Happy holidays! 🎁🎄💖

#young royals #wilmon #simon eriksson #wilhelm #prince wilhelm #surprise! 🎅 lol #you're amazing Fish! i hope this brightens up your day some!! 😊 #here's to s3 happy Wilmon moments! 🎉🎉 #my gifs yr #wille x simon

[patnapatjindapat]

rough week at the new school

F4 THAILAND (2021) || 23.5 DEGREES (2024)

#23.5 degrees #lakornladies #girlslovenet #my gifs #f4 thailand #mjtag #userlotad #vishingwell #tuserjovana #userlovevivi #tosunset #uservix #usertheos #userkit #ninisdarlings #userjjessi #usernuria #when you're a gmmtv female lead who just transferred to a new school where u feel like a fish out of water #and are almost instantly a target of bullying so u go to the rooftop to let your rage out #bonus points if it turns out ur not even alone up there lol #pardon the coloring they are so different #in my defense i was battling demons (twenty three point five coloring) #@tagged ppl lmk if you'd like to be untagged for this series

[villain-byteniwoha]

it's ironic that accounts saying they "block klk shippers" and "don't want to interact with proshippers" can always find something to say in my posts/reblogs. while I, a kaeluc shipper, personally have the "ragbros" tag blocked because I do not want to accidentally share something with a romantic context in mind, in case op is uncomfortable with that.

because I know how to put my own, as well as respect other's, boundaries in online spaces.

because I know that every single thing isn't meant for me and everyone has their own preferences.

because I know it's not only weird but also rude to go out of my way to put someone down for their interests or hard work.

but sure, call me the immoral one here for liking a fictional relationship between two fictional characters—who, keep in mind, I first started liking on the grounds that they were previously sworn brothers.

#honestly. HONESTLY. COME AT ME #I won't be mad I'll even fight you if you want my attention that badly #but don't go scrolling through my account and bash on the creators of the beautiful fanart I've reblogged #your fight should be with ME #leave them alone #if you're gonna make a promise on your intro post at the very least have the integrity to pull through lmao #the block button is there and it's free fucking real estate why are you HERE #I'm not??? even??? a big blog???? are you just that fucking lifeless you've run out of big fish to fry that you settled for me???? #honestly you are unwell i hope you feel better soon lol #kaeluc #luckae #kaeluckae #genshin impact #ship discourse #shipping discourse #genshin discourse #fandom discourse #kaeya alberich #diluc ragnivindr #ragbros #diluc #kaeya #kaeluc anti

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #another idea i've failed to write for & so invite anyone else to run with: ciao alberto but what if he peaces out by swimming off lol #ends up in a coastal town maybe an hour's swim from genoa. but not Getting In Touch w/anyone for a while b/c plausibly he thinks that #giulia may not be a fan of him now by extension; just being too embarrassed asf to reach out to luca kinda lol....luca off doing his own #thing just fine & alberto not wanting to write him now like b/c i Ruined Everything again ahaha.... #and by ''not in touch w/anyone for a while'' who knows. months; a few years even....might stumble across news of him b/c like. #say more sea folk are coming to land / more humans know abt them & not many places are as [harpoon]ly from the start anyways #portorosso exceptional in that way....maybe where alberto settles down they're like legendary but also considered Good Luck anyways lol. #anyways like some people know of him who might; say; swim down to portorosso. have their own teen who knows a teen who mostly lives on land #most convenient re sparking [wow could they mean Our alberto] if he doesn't go so far as to take up an alias lol. but why would he.... #that difference in that massimo might figure that however alberto was surviving before; he could continue to do so now; but even though tha #is some comfort it's still Not Actually Enough....feeling way more Parentally towards alberto than his biological dad like that; obv #and anyways re: this [The Change gets messed up] idea it's more of an inconvenience lol but one that could still have some significance #like if he first finds out the issue exists via hopping right into the ocean; failing to change forms; never being human form'd in water b4 #thee worst....crash intro course to the experience of drowning. observation of How Humans Swim / being able to grab any part of the boat... #and besides That unpleasantness it's like; hey. where's my nonhuman form at #or; of course; being in sea form even while dry....especially if he's still dealing with Nonsense on land. which is presumed. #&/or if there's an upswing in nonsense b/c of Other ways you're Othered...ofc we can consider like; tfw you're a gay fish & maybe that's no #something that on its own would be like Aah until it's like well a) i kinda wanna do things that would make this Visible and b) i've learne #that humans also Have Issues about this kind of thing.... #appropriately my tablet was also all thrown off. no pressure sensitivity; input sensitivity overall was rough #but i would've had to restart my laptop about it lol like eh i'll just work around it

[caffichai]

It's a little while till Lunar New Year, so in the meantime...

If you think "something else" and comment/send an ask, I'll definitely put a lot of consideration into that! At the very least I'll probably add it to a future poll!

#Big thanks to people participating in polls or sending me asks leaving tags or comments on my art! It really is very encouraging :3 #I imagine getting asks is what it feels like to get a letter from Santa #This will probably be a doodle and may or may not actually come before LNY we'll see lol #For those who've asked for a commission: I will draw them but if I don't draw for leisure between commissions I will burn out and explode : #I was thinking of like a dragon themed OC perhaps #Also hey Fishing-Lesbian-Catgirl if you see this I think you're singlehandedly driving huge amounts of interaction with my blog lol #Arknights #Nikke #Poll

[sobredunia]

im going to kill u with rocks the the ireland slander i cant and u dare u DARE put us in the same sentence as britain ohgbhuv im throwing up crying wha vthis is too far dude too far whygfv who how could you who r you id oant know you

listen i get that you hate britain and hate to be paired up with them. but also. i have spent literal months in ireland and lemme tell you your typical/traditional foods are stale and boring as fuck. I didn't like the taste of gravy which meant that my food was even more flavorless than usual which is pretty concerning if your main way to add taste is by adding a singular type of sauce

fish and chips are good tho

#ask #wiki #once you realise just how good the mediterranean diet is you do NOT want to change it for anything in the world #sorry for the ireland slander but i have GOT to speak up against this hate anon (lol) #i didnt spend as long in britain but i highly doubt the foods differ #also one thing. YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY THE LITERAL SEA ADD SOME MORE FISH AND MOLLUSKS TO YOUR DIET DEAR GOD LIKE??? #I HAD TO ACTUALLY BEG TO EAT SOME SHRIMP BECAUSE I WAS SO DONE WITH THE USUAL FOOD #AND THAT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE IN MY WHOLE STAY

[gay-impressionist]

me and two of my best friends of 11 years went to a artsy café for my birthday. on our way back to the subway, my friend noticed some interesting jewelry at an iranian craftswoman's shop. we went in and immediately spotted nice handmade ceramic dishes. and my friends bought me a beautiful yellow bowl decorated with fishes 😭

i'm living my dream life

#that's how you know you're getting older and a parisian bobo #and that your friends are exactly the same #(they bought ceramic coasters with the same fish design for themselves lol) #i fucking love them #my friends my beloved #ceramics my beloved #paris my beloved #lise raconte sa vie

[cquackity]

c! "i don't think about you at all" quackity

#'he is going to regret what he did to me' <- really normal things to say when you're normal like cq is #he is so hot when he's mad. lord🙏 #and the way he tries to cover up how fucking crazy he feels about what wilbur did. boy #also i tried to shorten this clip. and i straight up just couldn't #i'm also obsessed with cq talking about how cwilbur is not the same man. and then going on about how also he thinks wilbur hasn't changed #that alone like 10 fucking page paper #and do i think that it's true that cq had bigger fish to fry than wilbur at this time? absolutely #it's why their dynamic is painted as completely one-sided #do i also think that it's true that c!q does think about wilbur? on a similar level? yeah lol #like you can't really watch this vod especially and think any different #if this video is choppy well. it's because i slapped three clips together and called it good #it's nearly 6am. okay #personal #thes clips #c!tntduo

[pinceauarcenciel]

Full cover I illustrated for the beautiful zine, Where the Tides Meets the Stars @mermayzine featuring the mascots~ 🐳

The zine can be started from any side and inverts in the middle, that's why the cover can be flipped too -there's no up or down in the water! 🌟

🐚 Preorders are open until June 15th! 🐚 Get your copy here: https://mermayzine.bigcartel.com/

🌊 Where the Tide Meets the Stars 🌌 is a curated collection of marvelous artworks and enchanting stories featuring a large variety of merfolks from across the world -be it fresh water or oceanic spaces!

If you like mermaids and fantasy art, please consider buying a copy! Reblogs are also very much appreciated! 🐠

🧜‍♀️

#fanzine #my art #zine cover #zine full piece #original art #mermay #mermaid #traditional art #artists on tumblr #mermay art #mermay 2023 #mermen #mermaychallenge #merfolk #betta fish #mandarinfish #everyone worked really hard on this zine so pls help us spread the world! #and the merchs are all so cute?! you'll want them! #it's MERMAY you're legally obliged to consume and share mermaid-related content!! lol

[sewerelk]

Long time no see, I have a cohost now btw https://cohost.org/sewerelk?page=0 (sorry for the link mobile website Tumblr is a bit wacky)

I'm a bit on edge about posting on tumblr in the future because of ya know...so I'll be mostly posting on cohost and sometimes Tumblr maybe.

#Btw you don't need an account to look at my stuff at cohost anyone can see if you're interested #I've also been looking for other social media that say they're against ai art scraping from the website so I'm looking into cara.net too #start posting here regularly again once I get my hands on a web glaze account or a laptop that can download glaze and nightshade #Am I paranoid #probably lol #digital art #art #Fish #image described #image id in alt text

[zexonyte]

yeah i made him a fish lookin thang whatcha gonna do about it

#mother series #giegue #earthbound beginnings #yeah im proud of this so im putting it on tumblr too. hiii mother times server how yall doing #ignore that he doesnt have a back leg i tried but it looked kinda weird and cramped #anyways i gave giegue gill things and a more fish-esque appearance because i hc his species is aquatic #like they come from an oceanic? aquatic? unsure. well its a planet that is almost entirely water im talkin subnautica levels of sea #that's why he had that capsule orb thing in mother 1. he needs it to live and the weird engine-esque things at his side are like purifiers #making sure the liquid is suitable. not too focused on much else (why bother when you're a super powerful psychic) but isn't exactly fragil #like the material is flexible and rubbery even. you hit it and it bounces back a good amount #we don't really get an explanation for why earth itself was chosen to get invaded. at least i don't remember if there was one sorry 😭 BUT #i hc also that the reason giegue's species decided to invade here specifically was because of territory. i mean we've got a lot of water #maybe they took george and maria to test humanity in a sense. if they reacted positively to an alien child mayybe they wouldnt have needed #to straight up eradicate humanity maybe this time we wont need to fight too much. would be inconvenient to waste firepower on these #simple creatures. they're not even that smart. can't even use our epic brain powers lol (aged real well) #once again they aint found him yet but when they do they gon be surprised #anyways its like 4 in the morning i cant keep doing this. thanks for reading my brainworms over a game ive never played 🤙

[swiftfootedachilles]

ok i left the servers im in. ive decided im just done trying to interact with most people and im just gonna stick to the like. 8 people that still follow/positively interact with me. if youre seeing this youre okay but fuck everyone else i guess

#yeahhh im not finishing any of my fics or edits im keeping my interactions with this fandom to a minimum #ill just rb fanart gifs and meta and then post my own meta or asks and that's it lol #'you wonder why everyone hates you yet you're always being mean and negative' ok fine ill stop interacting with everyone #this isn't me fishing for attention btw im just keeping it a buck with yall i genuinely feel this way and im sick of FANDOM giving me stress #more stress than work. like fuck y'all. you win or whatever

[givehimthemedicine]

every "one" spoken in Stranger Things: Season 2

#st one roundup #mine #video #jonathan fishing counting down to one while the MF drawing is still on screen. lol #if you're looking for a number you won't find one #one hand references. hm

[ironwoman359]

What is your Hogwarts house?

......my guy it is 2023

#asks and answers #we do not support jk rowling or her work in this house #cuz thats what youre fishing for right? #like you're either a terf trying to sus out whether or not im supportive or you're not a terf trying to sus out if im a terf #and if thats not what you're doing then im sorry but welcome to tumblr we dont trust random innocent questions here #at least i dont #not anymore lol #ive been on this hellsite too long

[chronomally]

"Morally grey husbands ❤️" I respect where you're going with this but they were literally complaining that the guy they poisoned wasn't dying fast enough so they went out of their way to trick him into killing himself faster I think we're a little darker than grey at this point

#please feel free to ignore this #I'm reading Married Thrice to Salted Fish #When your younger half brother-in-law insults you and your dying sort-of husband who you're starting to kind of have feelings for #To be fair though everyone in the mansion sucks so have like have fun babes lol