If you swallowed pony beads when you were a kid, you are not alone. So many teeny plastic dooboppies are just crying out to be ingested...and frankly, doctors are tired of all those irresponsible designs. After finding a bread clip in the colon of a patient, several docs have outlined the clips' "evolutionary heritage" and "species" classification in a new article in BMJ Case Reports
, in hopes of prompting someone, anyone, to make one that isn't the perfect shape for lodging in the digestive nether regions. The researchers, drawing on several members' longstanding membership in the illustrious Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
, have given each type of bread clip a handy-dandy Latin name. The bread clip genus (?) is Occlupanidae, presumably for its occluding capabilities, while the species names refer to the relative toothiness---one-toothed, two-toothed, etc.---of the types. They also provide a detailed phylogenetic chart showing the evolution from ...
