Discover a new species and name it for same-sex marriage rights. A newly identified snail becomes the metaphor of slowness that often accompanies the recognition of gay rights
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
Discover a new species e give her a name for same-sex marriage rights. A snail just identified and becomes the metaphor of slowness that often accompanies the acknowledgments of gay rights. Aegista divers family, this is, in fact, the evocative scientific name of the new species of land snail endemic to the island of Taiwan that has been described in the magazine Zoo Keys.
It was recognized after confusing it with another particularly common one, the Aegista Subchinensis. The morphological differences that exist between one and the other concern the size of the shell which in A. diversifamilia has the flattest spiral shape.
Often two species deemed by initially the same they turn out to be different because between two populations there are obstacles that separate them. Evolution then does the rest and gives them differences that only a phylogenetic study can confirm, identifying two different species. Obstacles can be a mountain range or a river and they are said biogeographical obstacles.
Snails are animals hermaphrodites, that is, every single individual possesses both reproductive organs male and female and rrepresent the diversity of sexual orientation in the animal world.
In the period of writing the scientific article and the consequent presentation of the new species to the scientific world
"In Taiwan and in many other states there was a struggle for the recognition of the right to same-sex marriage," explained the Dr. Yen-Chang Lee, professor of Taipei's Academy Sinica. We decided that perhaps this was a good opportunity to give the snail a name that could recall the struggle for the recognition of the rights of same-sex marriage “.
A snail that becomes the banner of same-sex marriage rights in spite of itself. When nature takes the side of rainbow love.
Christian Prior
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