Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heliolevidea


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 22:34, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Heliolevidea

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Critical Existence Failure; I can't find any indication that this species exists. Provided sources (those that are accessible) do not mention it (and some are a little bizarre - see this one), no database contains heliolevidea as a species of Gleba, and even a blank web search on the word comes up empty. Quite a feat on today's internet. Image is "own work", but without any of the background information that would usually accompany what is apparently meant to be a high-tech underwater photo. This looks like either a hoax or something so hot off the press that it is completely undocumented. I have my doubts about opisthobranchs using light signatures to drive social recognition, and supect the former. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Unverifiable. Gleba appears to have one member, Gleba cordata. Nothing comes up on a search for Heliolevidea, a name which seems suspect ("Hell of an idea"?). The upload File:Heliolevidea.jpg claims this is a first encounter (2019) and own work by User:Uliana Reu who created this page, maybe it should be deleted as well.--Eostrix (talk) 16:24, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Can't access all sources in article, but WoRMS and ITIS confirm that cordata is the only accepted species in Gleba, and none of the deprecated congenerics are named heliolevidea (which I would interpret as "sun-lifting", as in "holding up a light"). A reverse image search finds no other copies of this picture online, so it's possible that this is a real species being described in a manuscript somewhere rather than a hoax (cf. the strange first-person speculation about social recognition), but even if so this article would have to wait for that manuscript to be published. FourViolas (talk) 19:13, 25 May 2020 (UTC)


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