The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

The best-known species is the common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea.

The best-known species of hamster is the golden or Syrian hamster ( Mesocricetus auratus ), which is the type most commonly kept as pets.

However, some species exhibit sex-role reversed behavior in which it is males that are most selective in mate choice ; the best-known examples of this pattern occur in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae, though likely examples have also been found in amphibian and bird species.

The best-known rat species are the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) and the brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ).

The discovery of a species still living, when they were believed to have gone extinct 65 million years previously, makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon, a species that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later.

One of Australia's best-known marsupials, the Koala is an arboreal species that feeds on the leaves of various species of eucalyptus.

The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra.

By far the best-known species is the Herb Hyssop ( H. officinalis ), widely cultivated outside its native area in the Mediterranean.

: For the best-known species in this group, see Resplendent Quetzal.

Saprophytic species of Penicillium and Aspergillus are among the best-known representatives of the Eurotiales and live mainly on organic biodegradable substances.

Some of the best-known anadromous fish are the six species of Pacific salmon, which are Chinook ( King ), Coho ( Silver ), Sockeye ( Red ), Chum ( Dog ), Pink ( Humpback ), and Cherry.

This is the best-known species of Stegosaurus, mainly because its remains include at least one complete articulated skeleton.

Among birds the best-known forms of parasitism are brood parasitism by various species of cuckoos, honey-guides, cowbirds, and several more.

Sturgeon is sometimes used more exclusively to refer to the species in the two best-known genera, Acipenser and Huso.

The best-known examples probably are members of the order Cycadales and associated species of beetles.

Deinonychus antirrhopus is one of the best-known dromaeosaurid species, and is a close relative of the smaller Velociraptor, found in younger, Late Cretaceous – age rock formations in Central Asia.

The best-known species is Macropus robustus, which is known as the Common Wallaroo or just Wallaroo on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range ( which runs for more than 3, 000 km around the eastern and south-eastern coast of Australia ), and as the Euro in most of the rest of the continent.

This conspicuous species has given rise to many legends across its range, of which the best-known is the story of babies being brought by storks.

This bird is one of the most common and best-known waders throughout its breeding and wintering ranges, and it is the species with which other waders tend to be compared.

The best-known species is the purple mangosteen ( G. mangostana ), which is now cultivated throughout Southeast Asia and other tropical countries, having become established in the late 20th century.

Others are a single living species with no close living relatives, but which is the survivor of a large and widespread group in the fossil record ; perhaps the best-known example is Ginkgo biloba of the ginkgo genus, though there are others, such as the Syntexis libocedrii ( the cedar wood wasp ).

It is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

The best-known and longest-running of these events is the rugby league rivalry between Great Britain and Australia ( see rugby league " Ashes ").

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

The popular MP3 format is probably the best-known example, but the AAC format found on the iTunes Music Store is also common.

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the Western classical repertoire.

Among the famous mathematicians and cryptanalysts working there, the most influential and the best-known in later years was Alan Turing who is widely credited with being " The Father of Computer Science ".

Bede's best-known work is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

The work is probably based on the older Mesopotamian genre of the " city lament ", of which the Lament for Ur is among the oldest and best-known.

The best-known example in the recent past is the Kennedy assassination conspiracy literature, though similar material exists concerning the September 11 attacks, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the spread of AIDS in the black community.

The CRTC regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications activities and enforces rules it creates to carry out the policies assigned to it ; the best-known of these is probably the Canadian content rules.

The best-known of these is the nucleolus, which is mainly involved in the assembly of ribosomes.

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

* Many safety clutches are not friction clutches, but belong to the interference clutch family, of which the dog clutch ( see below ) is the best-known.

The 1000-kilometre Kinshasa-Kisangani route on the Congo River is the longest and best-known.