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While browsing the Sagan 4 Alpha wiki, I noticed the Snowsculptor Janit was still listed as extant. However, in the Week 24 ecosystem page, it wasn't there. In the Week 26 ecosystem page, however, it is listed. The Snowsculptor Janit is from Week 21, Generation 139, so logically it would be in the Week 24 ecosystem page. This discrepancy doesn't seem to be discussed anywhere else.

If there are any other clerical errors of unclear solutions, here's the right thread to discuss it.

I think it's one of the species that was brought back, a it was noticed that one of the beaches had simple vanished in-between weeks, when instead it should have combined with an adjacent one. The snowsculptor janit and other species thus would have still been extant.

It seems some habitats on the Week 4 habitat list (on Beta) are called "Shrub" and others are called "Scrub". Wikipedia's page on "Shrubland" suggests "Shrubland" and "Scrubland" are synonyms. The habitat listings in the rules here use the word "Scrub", but not "Shrub". Is it a typo to use "Shrub" when "Scrub" is meant?

This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Apr 14 2021, 08:41 AM

In Beta, "rocky shrub" is a mixed biome, like a savanna or a chaparral, while "tropical scrub" is classed as steppe because it's so much drier. There's no such thing as a "rocky scrub" or a "tropical shrub".

The Tigmane seems to be missing. Did I not ever submit it?
Sketch of Tigmane:

I've never seen it before, so it must have never been submitted. Unless it's the mysterious missing gen 160 species that got replaced with Opportunity Shrew.

I think Spinebacked Probefaces were erroneously kept extant. Its descendant, the Acucravat, mentions replacing it. It's possible the replacement note was not noticed because it wasn't at the beginning of the organism description.

The genus name for the Fan Bloister was also changed from "Celebratio" to "Flabellator", for no clear reason. Its descendant, the Flamboyant Fan Bloister, keeps the genus name "Celebratio".

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 10 2021, 12:17 PM)

I think Spinebacked Probefaces were erroneously kept extant. Its descendant, the Acucravat, mentions replacing it. It's possible the replacement note was not noticed because it wasn't at the beginning of the organism description.

Oh it actually is still alive, because its descendant only replaces it on the Temperate Beach of Fermi, not the Polar Beach.

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Oct 10 2021, 10:19 AM)

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Oct 10 2021, 12:17 PM) I think Spinebacked Probefaces were erroneously kept extant. Its descendant, the Acucravat, mentions replacing it. It's possible the replacement note was not noticed because it wasn't at the beginning of the organism description. Oh it actually is still alive, because its descendant only replaces it on the Temperate Beach of Fermi, not the Polar Beach.

That's true, but I was specifically checking out Fermi Temperate Beach as of Week 26, as I was looking to update Hypnotizer Waxfaces' diet. Right at the top of the Fermi Temperate Beach list is the Spinebacked Probeface.

https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Mainland_Fuzzpalm
Though the description says, "Otherwise, they are functionally the same as their ancestor", the Mainland Fuzzpalm's reproduction method has apparently changed from its ancestor's. It doesn't mention making pollen, but "spores". This change is retained in Fuzzpiles and Bristlepiles. This is most likely a false synonym of "pollen" and would require nothing more than basically a typo correction, hence why this observation is not in the retcon thread.

Actually, the ancestors have never had pollen and the use of the term "pollen" is the error.