tags: silverfish, Lepisma saccharina, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
This beastie is probably a silverfish, Lepisma saccharina,
as portrayed in tiles on the stairway of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
Read more about the AMNH tile artworks and see the AMNH tile artworks photographic archives -- with all the animals identified.
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My guess would be a silverfish.
aaron: that's a much better guess than mine, since i don't think it looks much like an amoeba, but .. i couldn't think of what else it could possibly be.
Could it be a copepod?
Nope. That's GOTTA be a silverfish.
Our offices are crawling with them (literally) -- believe me, I'm pretty familiar with what they look like! --Actually, I think they're kind of cool looking. I wouldn't mind them at all, if it weren't for the fact they eat paper.
IIRC, silverfish are "living fossils" -- sole survivors of a very old lineage. Coincidentally, they've just shown up in the webcomic Skin Horse.