Sentences with phrase «genus named»

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.

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

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

«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.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Smith recognized that the isolated fungus was in the genus Fusarium, and due to its Cuban source named it F. cubense.

Aspergillus, a genus of several hundred mold species named after aspergillum.

The scientific name for the cowbird genus is molothrus.

From the Greek kapto, to bite, this is the botanical name for the genus and the one preferred by the scientific community.

From the Greek kapto, meaning to bite, this is the botanical name for the genus and the one preferred by the scientific community.

The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.

Although the common name «black widow spider» is most commonly used to refer to the three North American species best known for their dark coloration and red hourglass pattern, it is occasionally also applied to several other members of the Latrodectus (widow spider) genus in which there are 31 recognized species including the Australian red - back, brown widow spider (sometimes called the gray widow), and the red widow spider.

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

Celebrated travel writer Bryson sprinkles this saga with sharp - witted portraits of such scientists as the sex - obsessed Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who invented the modern biological classification system and named one plant genus Clitoria.

According to remains found in recent years in Els Casots, these crocodiles would also have shared their habitat with large mammals: rhinoceroses, the equid genus Anchitherium, peccaries, mouse - deer, primitive pigs and bovines, extinct relatives of elephants (including the mastodon and a proto - elephant named deinotherium) and some carnivorous species, such as the so - called bear dogs and felids, hyaenids and extinct mustelids.

With up to a few dozen holes pockmarking each of its leaves, the Swiss cheese plant (genus Monstera, pictured) is aptly named.

«We are very pleased to name this new horse genus after our friend and colleague Dick Harington.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

The plants on which this vast industry are based are often wrongly named, for example, within the genus Rhododendron.

«It reflected the adjective - noun structure in languages all over the world,» Knapp says of the trivial names, which today we know as genus and species.

The researchers think they have collected three other species of this new genus, but have yet to describe and name them.

The name of the new genus, Isthminia, recognizes both the Panama Isthmus and the fossil specimen's living relative, the Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis.

Former PhD student in the University of Otago's Department of Geology, Cheng - Hsiu Tsai and his supervisor, Professor Ewan Fordyce, have named the new genus Toipahautea waitaki, which translates in Māori as a baleen - origin whale from the Waitaki region.

It represents a new genus and species, which Pyenson and Boersma have named Arktocara yakataga.

Not so clear, however, is the name of the genus, which the authors have translated also from Greek as «with snake,» but find themselves unaware of the meaning behind.

«But to be able to name a new genus, and a seal genus at that, is incredibly rare and a great honor.»

«This important genus is named in recognition of Halszka's contribution to the study of Mongolian dinosaurs from the Gobi,» comments Rinchen Barsbold of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.

Among the rich finds: a fossil sand dollar that Charles Darwin picked up in Patagonia in 1834, during his voyage on the Beagle; an exquisite coiled boa constrictor skeleton, 300 vertebrae long; and Nabokov's wooden cabinet of butterfly genitalia, the study of which enabled him to name seven new genera of Latin American blues.