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In the genus Ensatinas, she has been observed to coil around them and press her throat area against them, effectively massaging them with a mucous secretion.
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When a female reproduces without such parasitic meals, she is said to practise autogenous reproduction, as in Toxorhynchites ; otherwise, the reproduction may be termed anautogenous, as occurs in mosquito species that serve as disease vectors, particularly Anopheles and some of the most important disease vectors in the genus Aedes.
" As time passed, Anning's confidence in her knowledge grew, and in 1839 she wrote to the Magazine of Natural History to question the claim made in an article, that a recently discovered fossil of the prehistoric shark Hybodus represented a new genus, as an error since she had discovered the existence of fossil sharks with both straight and hooked teeth many years ago.
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The challenge to the status has focused on the Agnostina partly because juveniles of one genus have been found with legs greatly different from those of adult trilobites, suggesting they are not members of the lamellipedian clade, of which trilobites are a part.
The family also has important ornamentals, mainly from the dominant genus Allium, but also including genera such as Ipheion.
Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.
Although the family ( Amaranthaceae ) is distinctive, the genus has few distinguishing characters among the 70 species included.
This complicates taxonomy and Amaranthus has generally been considered among systematists as a " difficult " genus.
The taxonomy of the genus has been controversial.
Although it has previously been assigned to its own genus Alopex, genetic evidence places it in Vulpes ( Mammal Species of the World ) with the majority of the other foxes.
Some South American plants formerly thought of as Daturas are now treated as belonging to the distinct genus Brugmansia ( Brugmansia differs from Datura in that it is woody, making shrubs or small trees, and in that it has pendulous flowers, rather than erect ones ).
The brown hyena has sometimes been placed in a separate genus Parahyaena, or even included in the otherwise fossil genus Pachycrocuta, but recent sources have tended to place it in Hyaena.
The genus Cryptobranchus has historically only been considered to contain one species, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, with two subspecies, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis and Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi.
Although the word jackal has been historically used to refer to many small-to medium-sized species of the wolf genus of mammals, Canis, today it most properly and commonly refers to three species: the black-backed jackal and the side-striped jackal of sub-Saharan Africa, and the golden jackal of northern Africa and south-central Eurasia.
Heller's names and the designations he gave to various jackal species and subspecies live on in current taxonomy, although the genus has been changed from Thos to Canis.
Although it has morphological similarities with the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale and the pilot whales, a study of cytochrome b gene sequences by Richard LeDuc indicated that its closest extant relatives are the snubfin dolphins of the genus Orcaella.
Also, a genus of lichen has been named Zamenhofia rosei in his honour.
The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America.
The taxonomy of the genus Mimosa has had a tortuous history, having gone through periods of splitting and lumping, ultimately accumulating over 3, 000 names, many of which have either been synonymized under other species or transferred to other genera.
Fossil Olea pollen has been found in Macedonia, Greece, and other places around Mediterranean, indicating that this genus is an original element of the Mediterranean flora.
Much rethinking has come to be regarded as only a special case of the property genus.
The Passenger Pigeon is a member of the Columbidae family ( pigeons and doves ) that has been assigned to the genus Ectopistes.
As the senior synonym, Cuvier's name has precedence, so applying modern rules for the combination of the genus name and the specific epithet, the valid species name became Ptéro-Dactyle antiquus.
Unaware of Rafinesque's publication Cuvier himself in 1819 again Latinized the genus, but the specific name he then gave, longirostris, has to give precedence to von Soemmerring's antiquus.
However, it has been difficult to determine exactly of what genus and species P. micronyx might be the juvenile form.
It has sometimes been placed in the genus Diopecephalus because Harry Govier Seeley based this genus partly on the P. longicollum material.
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Hybrids said to be between Amaryllis belladonna and Brunsvigia josephinae have been called × Amarygia, Neither hybrid genus name is accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.
Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.
These characteristics originally defined the genus, but not all such species are closely related, and many have been moved to other genera.
" Chipmunks have also been referred to as " striped squirrels ," " chippers ," " munks ," " timber tigers ," or " ground squirrels ," although the name " ground squirrel " usually refers to other squirrels, such as those of the genus Spermophilus.
Many slight variants have been discovered since then, including various alternative mitochondrial codes, and small variants such as translation of the codon UGA as tryptophan in Mycoplasma species, and translation of CUG as a serine rather than a leucine in some members of the genus Candida ( see the article on Candida albicans ).
Clerodendrum was once a genus of over 400 species, but by 2010, it had been narrowed to about 150.
It is the sole living representative of its family ( Ornithorhynchidae ) and genus ( Ornithorhynchus ), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record.
Fully mature Pterodactylus specimens remain unknown, or may have been mistakenly classified as a different genus.
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After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.
Shortly after, the formation of ascospores was observed and the genus Dekkera, which reproduces sexually ( teleomorph form ), was introduced as part of the taxonomy.
A penis-like structure has so far only been found in males of the genus Paraperipatus but has not yet been observed in action.
The detailed process by which this is achieved is in most cases still unknown, a true penis having only been observed in species of the genus Paraperipatus.
The organism was again observed and described in greater detail by Vilém Dušan Lambl in 1859, who thought the organism belonged to the genus Cercomonas and proposed the name Cercomonas intestinalis.
Aside from that, dusky dolphins may be confused with other members of their genus when observed at sea.
Other vine leaves related to betel in the genus Piper are also used fresh as wrapping medium which are eaten with their stuffing, such as vietnamese meat preparations wrapped in " Lolot " leaves and no adverse effects have been observed.
The genus Philodendron could be classified further by means of differentiating them based on the pattern of thermogenesis observed, although this is not currently used.
Snail Kites have been observed eating other prey items in Florida, including crayfish in the genus Procambarus and Black Crappie.
* A large polyp-like creature of the genus Pseudocorynactis was observed attacking, and then wholly ingesting a crown-of-thorns starfish of similar size.
Aronia has been thought to be closely related to Photinia, and has been included in that genus in some classifications, but botanist Cornelis Kalkman observed that a combined genus should be under the older name Aronia.
Edwardsia ( Fabaceae ) to Sophora tomentosa, the type species of the genus Sophora, observed from DNA sequence data and morphological characters.
The features observed indicate that the genus had a mouth surrounded by a ring of teeth ( suggesting a carnivorous diet ), an alimentary canal, and an anus-being the earliest known examples of this set of features.
have suggested that in the limited food environment on Flores, H. erectus evolved a smaller body size via insular dwarfism, a form of speciation which has been observed in other species on Flores also – including several species of the proboscidean genus Stegodon.
In their natural habitat, all species have been observed playing host to live bugs of the genus Setocoris, which nourished themselves by eating prey caught by the plants.
Increased prezygotic isolation, which is associated with reproductive character displacement, has been observed in cicadas of genus Magicicada, stickleback fish, and the flowering plants of the genus Phlox.
Similar behaviour has also been observed in some species of Lake Malawi cichlids, particularly from the genus Nimbochromis.
The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus who observed it during his 1732 expedition to Lapland and compared the plant to Andromeda from Greek mythology.
The roots and stems contain the alkaloid ephedrine, normally observed in the different varieties of the gymnosperm genus Ephedra.
* 1857 Note on a peculiar form of the ovaries observed in a hymenopterous insect constituting a new genus and species of the family Diapriadae.
The genus is still not well understood ; W. John Hayden has observed that the plant seems have been collected just once, in upper Rio Negro of Brazil in the 1850s, and suggests that it has been misplaced taxonomically.
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