Sentences with phrase «genus name»

The fleas described in their paper had certain genital features not found in any known genera, prompting the authors to define a new genus they named Musserellus in honor of Dr. Guy Musser, who collected some of the specimens in Sulawesi in the 1970s.

«I am delighted to have this new genus named after me.»

Paleontologists have placed the creature in a new genus named Calvapilosa («hairy scalp» in Latin).

The findings mean that the pygmy bushtit is likely to lose its unique genus name, and instead join the black - throated bushtit in the Aegithalos genus.

After a century of mislabeled ignominy, the «thunder lizard» reclaimed its iconic genus name.

Several million species of animals are recognised, and more than 2000 new genus names and 15,000 new species names are added to the zoological literature every year.

Yucca is the genus name for 40 - 50 species of a perennial shrub or tree that is grown primarily for decorative purposes.

«Praetermissum» means «passed over» in Latin, and it's the species name of a wild variety, but could be used with a genus name to mean a neglected variety.

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

In keeping with the naming of its living relative (after an Eastern Cape river), the species name of the new fossil form, kowiensis, is after the Kowie River which rises among the hills where it was found, and the genus name, Serenichthys, honours Serena Gess, who provided land for the storage of more than 70 tons of black shale rescued from roadworks for ongoing research — in which all the new material was found.

One simply takes the genus name, which is a noun, and modifies it with an adjective, or species epithet.

The researchers have named this new species Rukwanyoka holmani; the genus name combines the Rukwa region name with the Swahili word for snake, and the species name is in honor of J. Alan Holman, a paleontologist and mentor.

They selected the genus name Cornucollis to reflect the horn - like projections, which extend from the insect's neck.

(Even though the genus name contains the Greek word saur, which translates as «lizard,» these creatures and their kin were amphibians.)

The planthopper is called Iuiuia caeca, with the genus name (Iuiuia) referring to the locality, where it was found, and its species name (caeca) translating to «blind» in Latin.

According to the rules of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), that invalidates the genus name.

Even the genus name, Kootenichela, includes the reference to this film as «chela» is Latin for claws or scissors.

The whale's genus name, Cotylocara, means «cavity head» in recognition of a very deep pocket atop its skull thought to be associated with an air sinus used in echolocation.

Its genus name, Tegenaria, means «mat weaver»; its species name, agrestis, suggests the agrarian life it leads in Europe.

(See the story «Hobbit Symposium Held», below) Although given the genus name Homo, the fossils found a few years ago in Indonesia exhibit many traits, especially in the hands and feet, of much earlier members of the hominin lineage, particularly Australopithecus afarensis, which lived three million years ago and is not thought to have migrated out of Africa.

Rules of nomenclature say the species name technically can not be used without the genus name - so we are not sapiens, we are Homo sapiens (which can be abbreviated H. sapiens).

That's ok as long as the genus name is different, because the two are always used together.

The genus name of Pithecanthropus has been dropped by those who see rudolfensis as a valid species and replaced with the genus Homo.

Bumblebees (species with the genus name Bombus) are, like other bees, in trouble.

Its genus name, Glycyrrihza, comes from the ancient Greek words glycys, meaning sweet, and rhiza, meaning root.

For instance, one of the most researched strain, Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM, indicates the genus name (Lactobacillus), the species name (acidophilus) and the strain (NCFM).

That system provides two names for a species — a family name (generic name or genus name), which always has a capital letter as the first letter, and a personal name (specific name), which is always in lower case letters.

The genus name for the bleeding heart plant is Dicentra.

It might be hard to imagine, but there is one aquatic salamander about which I must give some words of caution: the Amphiuma (this is both the common and genus name).

The genus name, Aphelocoma, comes from the Latinized Ancient Greek apheles -(from ἀφελής --RRB- «simple» + Latin coma (from Greek kome κόμη) «hair», in reference to the lack of striped or banded feathers in this genus, compared to other jays.

The Latin name hints at the historical uses of the plant and also provides botanical description: the genus name Sambucus comes from the Greek sambuke, a stringed instrument made from the wood of elderberry plants.

The genus name Symbion is derived from Greek roots meaning «living together», referring to this animal's intimate association with its lobster host.

What got me musing about bees in mid-winter was an article in the Guardian recently that talked about an alarming 96 % drop in the numbers of four bumblebee species in the U.S. Like their honey bee cousins, Bombus — the genus name means «booming» in Latin — is a very important pollinator.

What got me musing about bees in mid-winter was an article in the Guardian recently that talked about an alarming 96 % drop in the numbers of four bumblebee species in the U.S. Like their honey bee cousins, Bombus — the genus name means «booming» in Latin — is a... [more]