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The [[special purpose vehicle]], or [[espievie]]<ref>Known in accounting circles, for some reason, as an [[espiecie]] — rest assured it is the same beast.</ref> is a unique species of [[joint stock company]], first discovered in the wild in the lush forests of [[George Town]], [[Grand Cayman]] by the Scottish naturalist [[A. J. N. Calder]] in 1926. For many years it was believed that the local genus, ''consortium restrictum culpam caymanium'' — the  “Common” or “Cayman Exempted” Espievie — was unique, but naturalists found variant species in other islands<ref>[[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] discovering the [[Giant Bermudan espievie]] in Bermuda in 1929, and Herbert Fonesca discovering the [[Panamanian Film espievie]] in 1953.</ref>. Even then it was widely understood to be a species indigenous to the Caribbean, but pioneering Jersey botanist [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a live specimen of the [[Oiec]] (pronounced “Oik”), an animal long rumoured to inhabit the [[Guernsey]] scrublands, but which had never previously been verified. Subsequent examination revealed the [[Oiec]] to be genetically identical to the Cayman espievie, and debate rages to this day as to how it crossed the nearly 5,000 miles of open Atlantic ocean between its two habitats.