Sentences with phrase «new genus they named»
«I am delighted to have this new genus named after me.»
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Paleontologists have placed the creature in a new genus named Calvapilosa («hairy scalp» in Latin).
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.
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
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.
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.
«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.
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 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.
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.
It represents a new genus and species, which Pyenson and Boersma have named Arktocara yakataga.
«But to be able to name a new genus, and a seal genus at that, is incredibly rare and a great honor.»
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.
On the off chance that the dinosaur turns out to be a new genus of brachiosaurid, the museum plans to name it Sonorasaurus thompsoni.
In 2010, Rodrigo Ferreira of the Federal University of Lavras in Brazil and colleagues discovered a new genus of insect which they named Neotrogla.
The new genus and species is named after two individuals.
Their paper naming the amphibian as a new species of the genus Eleutherodactylus appears this month in the journal Copeia.
He named one new genus he had created — Exserohilum — for the prominent protuberances called hila (the belly buttons of the fungal and botanical world) on its spores.
Her most notable work to date along these lines was the analysis of a partial skeleton of a new genus and species of Cretaceous bird from Vega Island that she and colleagues named Vegavis iaai in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in 2005.
The new genus is named Mescalerolemur after the Mescalero Apache, who inhabited the Big Bend region of Texas from about 1700 - 1880.