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School cards widget.- Phylo (or if you rather use our preferred term of endearment, Phylomon), is many things. It is:
1. A card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity.
2. An exercise in crowd sourcing, open access, and open source game development.
3. Freakin' awesome!


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classification: Chordata
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Mountain Kingfisher
Syma megarhyncha
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here.7 POINTS
• Syma megarhyncha has a MOVE of 2.
• Syma megarhyncha is found in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
Cool, Warm, HotImage by turtle-rn turtle-rn.deviantart.com/The Mountain Kingfisher (Syma megarhyncha) is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountains. All kingfishers are short-tailed large-headed compact birds with long pointed bills. Like other Coraciiformes, they are [...]
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Blue-headed Pitta
Pitta baudii
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here.8 POINTS
• Pitta baudii has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Pitta baudii can smash open snail shells by banging them upon tree roots and rocks.
Warm, HotImage by turtle-rn turtle-rn.deviantart.com/The Blue-headed Pitta, Pitta baudii, is a species of bird in the pitta family Pittidae. The species is endemic to the island of Borneo, where it occurs inBrunei, Kalimantan (Indonesia), Sarawak and Sabah (Malaysia). Its natural habitat is tropical lowland evergreen forests. While it does occur in disturbed of secondary forests, it is most common in primary forest. It usually occurs below 600 m (2,000 ft), it has been [...]
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Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottos
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here.3 POINTS
• Mimus polyglottos has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Mimus polyglottos is one of the loudest and most vocal of all birds.
Cool, WarmImage by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/The Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, is the only mockingbird commonly found in North America. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Turdus polyglottos.[2] The Northern Mockingbird breeds in southeastern Canada, the United States, northern Mexico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the Greater Antilles. It is replaced further south by its closest living relative, the Tropical Mockingbird. The Socorro Mockingbird, an endangered species, is [...]
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American Robin
Turdus migratorius
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here.3 POINTS
• Turdus migratorius has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Turdus migratorius's song sounds something like 'cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up, cheer up'.
Cool, WarmImage by Ashley Reynolds gummipwns.deviantart.com/The American Robin or North American Robin[2] (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin[3]because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family. The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and [...]
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Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias


8 POINTS
• Carcharodon carcharias has a MOVE of 2.
• Carcharodon carcharias can weigh up to 2,268 kilograms (5,000 lb)!
Cool, WarmImage by Martha Iserman www.bigredsharks.comTerry Gross en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PterantulaThe great white shark, scientific name Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. The great white shark is known for its size, with the largest individuals known to have approached or exceeded 6 [...]
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Common Raven
Corvus corax


1 POINT
• Corvus corax has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Corvus corax juveniles are among the most playful of all birds.
Cool, Warm, HotImage by Michelle Davison www.etsy.com/shop/arterioleThe Common Raven (Corvus corax), also known as the Northern Raven, is a large, all-black passerine bird. Found across the northern hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids. There are at least eight subspecies with little variation in appearance— although recent research has demonstrated significant genetic differences among populations from various regions. [...]
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CARD ATTRIBUTES DESCRIPTION
Top Left: COMMON NAME, LATIN NAME
Top Right: SCALE#, FOODCHAIN#, DIET (photosynthetic | molecular carbon | herbivore | omnivore | carnivore)
Middle: CLASSIFICATION (Kingdom, Phyla/Division, Class)
Middle Text: (currently blank) SPECIAL ABILITIES
Bottom Graphic: TERRAIN (desert | freshwater | forest | grassland | ocean | tundra | urban)
Bottom Left: ARTIST NAME, ARTIST URL
Bottom Right: CLIMATE (cold | cool | warm | hot)
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