Sentences with phrase «species name»

We are now stuck with a totally inaccurate species name of a supposedly Chinese pepper that's not from China but from the Caribbean and South America.
As a result, there's a myriad of new species named after fictional
Dr. Solis said that they had cited new discoveries relevant to the North American snout moth fauna found in GLOBIZ, or the Global Information System on Pyraloidea, an electronic list of over 15,500 snout moth species names for which she is a collaborator.
Born: 13/03/49 Age at which he found his first fossil, a seashell: 7 Longest expedition: 3 months («In the Gobi Desert») Year in which he first named a newly discovered dinosaur species: 1979 (Amblydactylus kortmeyeri) Number of new species he's helped name: 30 Number of new species named after him: 5
To ensure the critters aren't damaged or mixed up while experts handle them, they're affixed to pins and tagged with labels that indicate vital information such as species name, who found the bug and where it was collected.
«Say hello to the 3 - D Obama ant: Three new ant species named in honor of key figures in conservation — Barack Obama, Ken Saro - Wiwa, and E.O. Wilson — are immortalized as 3 - D virtual avatars.»
In some cases, a single species may show a high level of morphological variation, while in other cases, multiple morphologically similar species may be hidden under a single species name.
Matters of theory rarely disturbed the 20th - century palaeontologists; they assigned species names to practically every fossil they found until biologist Ernst Mayr, wielding insights from genetics, stunned them into embarrassed silence.
The name changes face a few challenges, says Andrew Polaszek, executive secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the body responsible for establishing species naming conventions.
This is Cornucollis masoalensis, the new species named by Sydney Brannoch and Dr. Gavin Svenson for the appearance of horn - like outgrowths projecting from its neck and for its collecting location in Masoala, Madagascar.
Taking their commitment to sustainability and customer satisfaction a step further, all seafood Global Food Networking sells is also 100 % traceable, allowing their customers to see their products catch method, accurate species name, catch location, and even the name of the fishermen who caught it.
There they are cultivated to make hot sauces and curries.Botanical TraitsThe species name «frutescens» means shrubby or bushy.
Lane is searching for nymphal western blacklegged ticks (species name Ixodes pacificus), the prime vector for spreading Lyme disease out West.
The smaller worm - like guests, a new species named Inquicus fellatus, are up to 3 mm long and attached at their bottom ends to the stiff skin of their hosts, with their feeding ends pointing away.
In their latest paper, published in the journal Zoosystematics and Evolution, the scientists describe the fauna from several caves in central Brazil, including a new tiny species named after a character from the popular fantasy tabletop role - playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
Actual lions evolved on a different fork in the mammal genealogical tree, but Australia's marsupial lions got their feline nickname from the size and slicing teeth of the first species named, in 1859.
Gillespie expects W. shouteni — the 10th species named in its family — carried its young in a pouch as kangaroos, koalas and other marsupials do.
How it works: Besides a casual name, what if exoplanets had something like a taxonomical species name, mirroring biology's kingdom - phylum - class - order - genus - species arrangement?
The pros: Just by looking at the exoplanet's taxonomic species name, someone in the know would glean loads of information.
The creature will be only the third new rabbit species named in South America since the start of the modern classification system 260 years ago.
A new carnivorous dinosaur species named Dracoraptor hanigani uncovered in the south of Wales is possibly the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur from the UK, according to a study published January 20, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by David Martill from the University of Portsmouth, England, and colleagues from National Museum Wales and University of Manchester.
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton representing a previously unknown genus and species named Archicebus achilles.
Botanist Lynn Bohs, a University of Utah biology professor shown here in a campus greenhouse, has published a new study that identifies a new and prickly species named Solanum cordicitum (not shown in photo).
This binomial nomenclature guards against confusion if, say, a bug taxonomist and a mammal taxonomist (who tend to run in different scientific circles and probably are not reading each other's publications) want to (or inadvertently) assign the same species name to the group of organisms they happen to be excited about at the time.
Where species names could not be verified in ITIS [204], they were verified in Jørgensen and León - Yánez [205].
The Bird Skinner is enlivened by its surprising mixture of cultures and languages, with Latin species names sharing space with Cadillac's songs in Islands pidgin.
Horror novel, a sequel to Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (2011), about American eugenicists, an inhuman species named Juke, and the synthesis of those horrors that threatens humanity.
[4] This bird is a member of the crow family, and is one of a group of closely related North American species named as scrub jays.
If fish are being sold under a certain species name yet are truly another species, that likely muddies up the data about the real status of those fish stocks.
We're all familiar with the use of animal species names (general and specific) as labels for a sets of human charateristics, for descriptions of types of people, some good, some bad; for example; lion, tiger, weasel, rabbit, rat, dinosaur, pigeon, shark, albatross, crow, snake, (teddy) bear, sloth, insect, rodent, bug, cat etc..
This year, 33 new kinds of trapdoor spider were discovered in the American Southwest, including one species named for the President, Aptostichus barackobamai.
Cryptic species, two or more distinct species that are erroneously classified under a single species name, are found in all major groups of living things.
The star of the show is Chororatherium roobii, a new species named in part after a local word for hippopotamus.
The specimen's new species name derives from Novus Portus, a Latinized version of New Haven — a reference to the New Haven Arkose geological formation.
Which we know that back in a certain point in time none of those species named existed.
The one illustrated here is interesting because the species name is listed as Piper indicum because early botanists believed that chiles were a form of black pepper from India.
The Latin name of flax is Linum usitatissimum, and the species name «usitatissimum» means «most useful».
«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.
The species name «baccatum» means berry - like, an allusion to the smaller - podded varieties.
Click on a species name to reveal its range map (one shown below), as well as crowdsourced...
The researchers stopped short of putting a species name to the jaw — until they discover more remains.
The species name deyiremeda derives from words in the local Afar language meaning «close» and «relative».
Click on a species name to reveal its range map (one shown below), as well as crowdsourced pictures.
Polaszek says changing a species name for purely political reasons is verboten, and merely announcing new names does not ensure that scientists will adopt the changes, which must be published in a scientific journal to be official.
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