Registry of the order Diptera · Robinhood Chain BuyX
Musca domesticaMuscidae · Linnaeus, 1758

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Species

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Google mapped one fly brain: 166,700 neurons. There are 175,228 species of fly. This is the registry. Every species can be launched. The Latin is the ticker.

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Type specimens

The 150 most observed flies on Earth · click a row for the label

Ranked by how many times humans have recorded them, from GBIF. Observations is the number of times somebody, somewhere, wrote this fly down. The house fly is not first. A hoverfly that pretends to be a bee is.

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Families

296 on file · ranked by species

Gall midges alone are 52,328 species. The family that gave the world the house fly is not in the top ten.

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The genus is the ticker

Pick a species, launch it on Pons, quoted in $FLYSPEC. One per species, first come first served, the name is already Latin.

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Fly SpeciesData: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, order Diptera, snapshot · brain: Google Research & HHMI Janelia