Sentences with phrase «species names for»

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.

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.

The biologist George Rabb with Toughie, the last known Rabbs» fringe - limbed tree frog, a species named for him and his wife, Mary.

Not exact matches

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a household name worldwide, known as a hotspot for thousands of coral and marine species.

«We feel very strongly that in a couple of years, customers will be looking for the origin of the product, how it was caught, and the scientific name of the species,» says Marie - Claude Bacon, director of corporate affairs.

The eighth most populous county in Utah, Box Elder County is named for the tree species that is so common in the county.

Environmentalism, for example, no longer is content to conserve resources for posterity and protect pristine areas and endangered species, but seems increasingly dedicated to actively impeding human flourishing in the name of «saving the planet.»

Lewis Thomas finds hope for the human species in the accumulative intelligence of termites, the thrush in his backyard, and a protozoan named Myxotricha paradoxa.

Faith is good, and gives a lot of people a reason to live, but the word of God is the most abused power our species has ever seen, more wars have been started and more people have died for his name then for any other purpose.

Bonnet pepper, named for its tam - o» - shanter shape and commonly known by the middle of the nineteenth century as Scotch bonnet, was eventually recognized as a distinct species, C. chinense.

Kamut Kamut is a trademark name for a species of wheat that is an ancient relative of durum wheat.

Chia is the common name for salvia hispanica, a plant species which is closely related to sage and other herbs.

Also, the generic name for the species in other Caribbean islands.

The common name for this species in South America is rocoto or locoto.

Species: Chinense Origin: Bangladesh Heat: Nuclear Add to my growing list Naga Morich meaning «snake or serpent Chile is an apt name for this ferociously hot variety as eating even the smallest slither of one of these pods is described by some as like drinking cobra venom!!.

Record one count for each species of bird seen — then submit the simple report form to Mass Audubon and your name will be entered in a random drawing to win one of several prizes.

1825: Only the second dinosaur (after Megalosaurus) to be classified scientifically, the species's first fragmentary fossils were named by British paleontologist Gideon Mantell for the similarity of their teeth to those of iguanas.

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).

Lane is searching for nymphal western blacklegged ticks (species name Ixodes pacificus), the prime vector for spreading Lyme disease out West.

It's nice for us to be able to categorize things and try to make sense of it, but there's a deeper level at which species — that's just a convenient thing, you know, all these things, these names we put on things are not the real description of what's going on.

The newly named species is Cynarctus wangi, named for Xiaoming Wang, curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and an expert on mammalian carnivores.

The 10 - centimeter (4 - inch) long Xenoturbella churro, named for its resemblance to the popular fried - dough pastry, is one of four species recently discovered that lie near the base of the evolutionary tree of animals.

Volunteers for the aptly named AMBLE regularly walked beaches in Door County in Wisconsin, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, recording the number of sick and dead birds of different species.

There are an estimated one to 10 million species, and we have names for 100,000, which suggests how little we know.

Diversity within the species creates what the scientists call a «portfolio effect,» named for its resemblance to a diversified investment portfolio: Some salmon stocks do better under certain conditions, whereas others thrive under different constraints, but the fishery as a whole remains stable.

One of the new fish species discovered in the Rariphotic, Haptoclinus dropi was named for the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project.

The frog was named by herpetologist Blair Hedges for its seeming ability to throw its voice, making it extremely challenging to locate — especially since it is the species» call that first alerted the search team to its presence.

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 ICZN code, which provides guidance for naming new species and resolving conflicts about older ones, is updated periodically, and there is fear that communication barriers would form without systematic name assignment.

Formed in 1895, the London - based ICZN sets rules for naming newly identified species — some 16,000 a year — and resolves disputes over names for animals both living and extinct.

To provide that focus, the committee is calling for a 25 - year programme to bolster systematics — the science of naming and identifying the world's species and determining how they are related to one another.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

Some additions were unnecessary, such as Gort's name as a military acronym for Genetically Organized Robotic Technology; or heavy handed, as in overplaying the environmental destruction theme by turning the spaceship into a species - saving ark.

Linnaeus, a botanist with a talent for noticing details, first used what he called «trivial names» in the margins of his 1753 book Species Plantarum.

Druckenmiller worked with an instructor of the Iñupiaq language at the Alaska Native Language Center at University of Alaska Fairbanks to develop a name for the new species that was culturally, anatomically and geographically correct.

The name echoed our feeling for the future of the species.

The whale spotted on Christmas, a 2 - year - old female right whale cataloged as Eg 3911 (Eg for the species» scientific name, Eubalaena glacialis), tangled with a fishing trap line sometime between February and December 2010.

Identified as a new species, it has been named Chupkaornis keraorum — Chupka is the Ainu word used by indigenous people from Hokkaido for «eastern,» and keraorum is named after Masatoshi and Yasuji Kera, who discovered the specimen.

The researchers therefore argue that the three new species together make up a separate order, which they have named Mantophasmatodea, for its superficial resemblance to the praying mantis and phasmids, the stick insects.

Dr. Hamilton coined the name because the species is found in California near Folsom Prison (famous for Cash's song «Folsom Prison Blues») and because mature males are generally solid black in coloration (paying homage to Cash's distinctive style of dress where he has been referred to as the «Man in black»)(see Image 2).

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.

About the size of a sesame seed, a new species of wasp from Costa Rica, named Dendrocerus scutellaris, has elaborate branched antennae that could be used for finding mates.

The species is named after Dr. Hussam El - Dine Zaher, a Brazilian herpetologist whose work has been foundational for South American snakes.

Liturgusa krattorum, a new species of praying mantis discovered by Dr. Gavin Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is named for Martin and Chris Kratt of the television show Wild Kratts.

For example, the famous Galápagos Islands finches named for Charles Darwin picked up survival advantages by interbreeding with other finch species (SN: 3/7/15, p. For example, the famous Galápagos Islands finches named for Charles Darwin picked up survival advantages by interbreeding with other finch species (SN: 3/7/15, p. for Charles Darwin picked up survival advantages by interbreeding with other finch species (SN: 3/7/15, p. 7).

Among the new species, Liturgusa algorei, is named for Albert Arnold «Al» Gore Jr., former vice president of the United States of America, to honor his environmental activism and efforts to raise public awareness of global climate change.

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.

For now, Pääbo's team is not giving the new lineage a species name, at least until they know more about it.

For 145 years, biologists have thought that Arapaima consisted of a single species whose scientific name is A. gigas.