Brookesia is a genus of chameleons found in Madagascar, that range from small to very small in size, and are known collectively as leaf chameleons ( though this name also commonly is used for species in the genera Rieppeleon and Rhampholeon ).

Until recently, the members of the genus Rieppeleon were commonly included in Rhampholeon instead.

The Spectral Pygmy Chameleon ( Rhampholeon spectrum ) is one of the so-called " dwarf chameleons ", aka " leaf chameleons ", from mainland Africa.

Animals found in the Highlands include Blue Monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis ) the Samango Sykes ' Monkey, East African Little Collared Fruit Bat ( Myonycteris relicta ) and Marshall's Pygmy Chameleon ( Rhampholeon marshalli ).

Members of this order with smooth skins are commonly referred to as frogs while those with warted skins are known as toads.

Collectively they are commonly known as " water plantain ".

The Apiaceae ( or Umbelliferae ), commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

This definition of agrarianism is commonly known as “ agrarian reform .”

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

These were commonly referred to as " Arians " due to their rejection of the Trinity, though in fact the Socinians, as they were later known, went further than Arius to the position of Photinus.

In Chinese speaking regions, abalone are commonly known as bao yu, and sometimes forms part of a Chinese banquet.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

* Aotus ( plant ), one of the plant genera commonly known as golden peas in the family Fabaceae ( bean family ).

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

Commercial aircraft cockpit data recorders, commonly known as a “ black box ”, store flight information and audio from the cockpit.

Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as " The Acropolis " without qualification.

* Anomic aphasia, also known as Anomia, is another type of aphasia proposed under what is commonly known as the Boston-Neoclassical model, which is essentially a difficulty with naming.

In the UK, Germanic Neopaganism is more commonly known as Odinism or as Heathenry.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

He is commonly known simply as Rav ( or Rab, Hebrew: ).

Less commonly seen animals include cuvier's beaked whale, false killer whale, pygmy sperm whale, dwarf sperm whale, risso's dolphin, common dolphin, humpback whale and Bryde's whale.

Fauna that are commonly found within the park include bandicoots, pygmy honey possums, ring tailed possums, quenda and grey kangaroos.

The coloring and shape of the pygmy right whale, dark gray dorsally and lighter gray ventrally, commonly with a pair of chevron-shaped lighter patches behind the eyes, is similar to that of the dwarf minke and Antarctic minke whales and at sea may easily be confused with these two species if the jaw and flippers are not carefully observed.

Analysis of stomach contents suggests that pygmy sperm whales feed primarily on cephalopods, most commonly including bioluminescent species found in midwater environments.

The grasslands of semi-evergreen forest is also inhabited by leopard, elephant, barasingha or swamp deer, barking deer, wild boar, hog deer, bison, otter, Hoolock Gibbon, Golden langur, wild water buffalo, capped langur, pygmy hog, bear, grey-headed fish eagle, Pallas's Fish Eagle, Crested serpent eagle, Swamp partridge, Red jungle fowl, Bengal florican, Whistling Teal, Pelican, Red-breasted Parakeet, Black-necked stork, Adjutant Stork, Open-bill stork, Egret, Heron, White-winged wood duck, Rock python, monitor lizard, turtle and other commonly found species.

These structures are commonly found in fungi, algae, liverworts and mosses, but also in some flowering plants such as pygmy sundews.

With few exceptions, the chameleons most commonly seen in captivity are all members of Chamaeleo, notably the Common, Senegal and Veiled chameleons, but even they require special care.

This was renamed the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church and Connection, more commonly known as the A. U. M. P.

In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai ( Reck 1931 ), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.

* G. c. peralta, commonly known as the West African, Niger or Nigerian giraffe, is endemic to south-western Niger.

It is certainly also commonly used in connection with the acquisition, use, and study of English as the world's lingua franca (' TEIL: Teaching English as an International Language '), and especially when the language is considered as a whole in contrast with British English, American English, South African English, and the like.

Early blues was commonly structured around a repetitive call-and-response pattern, a common element in the African American oral tradition.

The local Seychellois Creole ( Kreol ), a creole language derived from French and African tongues, is the native language of 91. 8 % of the people ; but English and French are also commonly used.

The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (" Second War of Liberation " or lit.

The second half of the Big Four is the pattern commonly known as the habanera rhythm, one of the most basic rhythmic cells in Afro-Latin and sub-Saharan African music traditions.

Lamingtons are sometimes served as two halves with a layer of cream or strawberry jam between, and are commonly found in South African and Australasian outlets such as cafes, lunch bars, bakeries, home industries and supermarkets.

Structural aircraft-grade plywood is more commonly manufactured from African mahogany or American birch veneers that are bonded together in a hot press over hardwood cores of basswood or poplar.

** Uji, a thick East African porridge made most commonly from corn flour mixed with sorghum and many other different ground cereals, with milk or butter and sugar or salt.

The Oud (; ʿūd, plural: أعواد, a ‘ wād ; Assyrian: ܥܘܕ ūd, ; Hebrew: עו ּ ד ; barbat ; ;, Azeri: ud ; or kaban ) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Greek, Byzantine, North African ( Chaabi, Classical, and Andalusian ) and Middle Eastern music.

What later became South Africa was not, during the late nineteenth century, one single, united nation ; rather, the territory had four distinct entities: the two British colonies of Cape Colony and Natal ; and the two Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic, more commonly referred to as the Transvaal.

The Spencer Churches ( less commonly called the " Union Churches ") are the two religious denominations that resulted from a schism in the " Union Church of Africans " ( also known as African Union Church ), the first independent black denomination, founded by Peter Spencer in Delaware in 1813.

* in French ( as commonly used in French-speaking countries, such as France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Monaco ; and in partially Francophone countries like Belgium, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and various other African countries )

Motown artists were advised that their breakthrough into the white popular music market made them ambassadors for other African American artists seeking broad market acceptance, and that they should think, act, walk and talk like royalty, so as to alter the less-than-dignified image commonly held by white Americans in that era of black musicians.

Ticks are vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever ( rare ; more commonly transmitted by infected excreta ), Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, African tick bite fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Tick paralysis and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as bovine anaplasmosis.

The African Sacred Ibis was an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth.

Afrocentrism can be seen as an African-American inspired ideology that manifests an affirmation of themselves in a Eurocentric-dominated society, commonly by conceptualizing a glorified heritage in terms of distinctly African, foreign origins ( where foreign is anything not indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa ).

Other words commonly sung to the same melody include six Christian hymns ( Be Still, My Soul ; I Sought the Lord ; We Rest on Thee ; A Christian Home ; This Is My Song ; and I Then Shall Live ), Gweddi dros Gymru or A Prayer for Wales ( a national song of Wales ), Ambrosian Oaks ( the alma mater of St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa ), and Land of the Rising Sun ( the national anthem of the short-lived African state of Biafra ).

Although sangoma is a Zulu term that is colloquially used to commonly describe all types of Southern African traditional healers, there are differences between practices: an inyanga is concerned mainly with medicines made from plants and animals, while a sangoma relies primarily on divination for healing purposes and might also be considered a type of fortune teller.

By contrast, African species had many thousands or a few million years to adapt to the gradual development of human hunting skills, yet many of the commonly domesticated bovid species ( goats, sheep, water buffalo and yak ) originated in Asia.

Hunting guides in Africa of European descent are commonly referred to as White hunter, although this is becoming a less fashionable term these days, as in most African countries today there are also native African " hunters " or hunting guides.

Libation is also commonly recognized as the break within the famous performance of Agbekor, a ritual dance performed in some West African cultures.