Subject: The species must have evolved.
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Posted on: 2014-11-28 10:18:00 UTC
We all know that time on the internet moves way faster than in the Real World - that's how I can be considered ancient despite only having been here ten years (which really isn't that long). Those ten years of mini-Boarders must be the equivalent of millions; the species Miniscula boardari has simply evolved in response to its changing environment. Perhaps we should designate the chronospecies as M. boardari tedii and M. boardari hominii - though I'm not convinced using subspecies nomenclature is appropriate. As seen, Huinsoren still retains the old form, as do all my minis, so we seem to have full-on speciation. Perhaps M. boardari is the modern species, and M. autori is the older variety?
The genus Miniscula - which includes all minis, including of course M. valarauka, the mini-Balrog - is of course found in family Typographica, order Inadvertian, class Fandominus, phylum Literati, kingdom Imaginorium, domain Inventio.
Taking a look at our Sue Latin Names article, it's clear that Suvians fall in the class Fandominus. There's then an order Caractorian, which covers all intentional characters in fandom, within which is the family Puella, which includes all Suvians.
Puella is divided primarily into genuses Viatormundorum - world-hopping Suvians - and Indigenamundus - native Suvians. For each of these, there are two species, named in both cases (because Suvians delight in messing up nice neat science) perficipulchrituda - perfect and flawless Suvians - and infidimediocris - the ones who are specifically described as not perfect.
In other words, your Suvian's species is defined by where it comes from, and how 'perfect' it is. There are then myriad sub-species, including V. perficipulchrituda mellis, the sickly-sweet perfect world-hopper, and I. infidimediocris gladius, the homely warrior-Sue (closely related to I. i. aggressor; the DMSE&R is attempting to isolate the differences between 'warrior' and 'anger problems', but isn't having much luck).
And one for luck: the Flowers, if we accept them as being fictional, must be class Fandominus, order Caractorian, family Protectiflora. Genus and species names are as for their Real World equivalents, with sub-species sapiens.
And I'm pretty sure we could do with moving over to a more cladistic approach - splitting Protectiflora directly off from Caractorian is ridiculous, since it implies the Flowers are just as closely connected to Suvians as they are to agents. But we'll leave that for another time.
(Who wants to work up a phylogenetic tree for Inventio? ^_^)
hS
