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Beast-forms · Face-borrowers

Pseudotheriiformes : Prosopocollidae

False Snout

Prosopocolla rhinomima

ブタバナダマシ

What looks like a nose is a pair of eyes imitating a pig's snout. Its real nose and mouth lie faintly beneath, and few ever notice. Its polka dots increase with every memory it inhales.

Locality

Aso-gun, Kumamoto Pref., Japan: in the grass of a mountain pasture

Collected

13.XI.1997 Hikaru Hongu leg.

Determined

10.II.2023 Toshiro Tsuzura det.