Invertebrates Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-29 · 10 entries checked · 3 flagged · 4 issues confirmed · 3 corrected · 1 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Flatworm — The claim about a planarian species used in the Maldives to control giant African snails, with initial success but later becoming a threat to native snails, is not a widely recognized established fact and appears to be unverifiable or invented.

Crayfish — The entry states crayfish have a body made up of twenty segments, but they actually have 19 segments (5 cephalic, 8 thoracic, 6 abdominal; the telson is not a segment).

Hemiptera — The fossil record states 'Carboniferous (Moscovian)' as the oldest known hemipteran fossils, but the earliest confirmed hemipteran fossils are from the Permian period, not the Carboniferous.

Hemiptera — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section claims that 'male scale insects undergo a form of complete metamorphosis.' This is incorrect; scale insects are hemimetabolous and do not undergo true complete metamorphosis.

Open data

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