Voyage of the Beagle Darwin Deck

2016 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Download cards : board : rules | Purchase Box Set : Cards Only)…

This is a deck made with research help from Karen James and includes commissioned art of a variety of organisms that Darwin observed or collected whilst on the H.M.S. Beagle. This deck will include 40 new cards and also a small game board that depicts a map of the voyage route. Note that the different card border colours are representative of different legs of the journey.

Vinchuca

Triatoma infestans
Scale 4 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

6 POINTS

Play: The vinchuca has a MOVE of 2.

“It is most disgusting to feel soft wingless insects, about an inch long, crawling over ones body; before sucking they are quite thin, but afterwards round & bloated with blood.” Darwin on the Vinchuca, 1835

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Graphic by Golly Bardgollybard.blogspot.ca/
Photo by CDC/World Health Organizationcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triatoma_infestans.jpg
Triatoma infestans, commonly called winchuka[1] (vinchuca) in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, barbeiro in Brazil and also known as “kissing bug” or “barber bug” in English, is a blood-sucking bug (like all the members of its subfamily Triatominae) and the most important vector of Trypanosoma cruzi which can lead to Chagas disease. It is widespread in […] read more

Zooplankton

Marine zooplankton
Scale 3 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 1
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Animalia, Anthropoda

1 POINTS

Play: Zooplankton has a MOVE of 1.
“Many of these creatures so low in the scale of nature are most exquisite in their forms & rich colours. — It creates a feeling of wonder that so much beauty should be apparently created for such little purpose.” (Darwin on plankton).

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Graphic by DIana Sudykawww.dianasudyka.com/
Zooplankton /ˌzoʊ.əˈplæŋktən/ are heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) plankton. Plankton are organisms drifting in oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. The word “zooplankton” is derived from the Greek zoon (ζῴον), meaning “animal”, and planktos (πλαγκτός), meaning “wanderer” or “drifter”.[1] Individual zooplankton are usually microscopic, but some (such as jellyfish) are larger and visible with the naked […] read more

Baobab Tree

Adansonia digitata
Scale 9 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

2 POINTS

Fact: During the voyage, the observation of this tree (which can grow to be 6000 years old), is thought to have made Darwin ponder the long timescales in the Earth’s geology.

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Graphic by Robert Ballwww.robertmball.com/
Photo by Ferdinand Reuscommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baobab_and_elephant,_Tanzania.jpg
Adansonia digitata (baobab) is the most widespread of the Adansonia species on the African continent, found in the hot, dry savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa. Common names for the baobab include dead-rat tree (from the appearance of the fruits), monkey-bread tree (the soft, dry fruit is edible), upside-down tree (the sparse branches resemble roots), cream of […] read more

Giant Kelp

Macrocystis pyrifera
Scale 9 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
Chromalveolata, Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae

3 POINTS

Fact: Darwin is thought to be one of the first scientists to consider the ecological importance of kelp comparing them to an aquatic version of a forest of trees.

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Graphic by Rachel Ignotofskywww.rachelignotofskydesign.com/
Photo by Claire Facklercommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanc0063_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg
Macrocystis pyrifera, commonly known as giant kelp or giant bladder kelp, is a species of kelp (large brown algae), and one of four species in the genus Macrocystis. Giant kelp is common along the coast of the easternPacific Ocean, from Baja California north to southeast Alaska, and is also found in the southern oceans nearSouth […] read more

Leaf Letter Flea Beetle

Aulonodera darwini
Scale 4 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

4 POINTS

Play: This Flea beetle has a MOVE of 2.

Fact: This is one of four Australian insect species, collected by Darwin during the Beagle voyage, that bear his name.

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Graphic by Simon Gurrwww.gurrillustration.com/
Flea beetle is a general name applied to the small, jumping beetles of the leaf beetle family(Chrysomelidae). They make up the tribe Alticini, which is a part of the subfamily Galerucinae, though they were historically classified as a subfamily in their own right. Though most tribes of the Galerucinae are suspect of rampant paraphyly in […] read more

Sicyos villosus

Cucurbitaceae Sicyos villosus
Scale 7 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

2 POINTS

Play: This plant is EXTINCT.
Fact: Darwin’s single dried specimen of Sicyos villosus, collected during the Beagle voyage, appears to be the only piece of evidence that showed this plant ever existed.

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Graphic by Golly Bardgollybard.blogspot.ca
Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as burr cucumbers.[2] (From Wikipedia, August 2015) read more