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The genera Lama and Vicugna are, with the two species of true camels, the sole existing representatives of a very distinct section of the Artiodactyla or even-toed ungulates, called Tylopoda, or " bump-footed ", from the peculiar bumps on the soles of their feet.
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Phylogenetic analyses place these genera into the following groups ( not all of these are considered amoeboid ( or " amoebas ") by all sources ):
It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known.
Thus although most species in the order are herbaceous, some no more than 15 cm high, there are a number of climbers ( e. g. some species of Asparagus ), as well as several genera forming trees ( e. g. Agave, Cordyline, Yucca, Dracaena ), some of which can exceed 10 m in height.
The nine genera are found in Chile, the United States and Africa.
Many other genera, both perennials and bulbs, are grown in gardens in tropical and temperate regions ( e. g. Watsonia, Crocus, Dietes, Tritonia, Hesperantha and Neomarica ).
Moraea and Homeria are two genera of poisonous plants which are a problem in sheep and cattle producing regions, notably in South Africa.
Two of the genera, Hemerocallis ( day lily ) and Phormium ( New Zealand flax ), are grown as ornamentals worldwide.
Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.
Other genera are used as ornamental plants, both succulents such as Aloe, Haworthia and Gasteria and perennials such as Kniphofia, Asphodelus and Bulbine.
The core Asterales are Stylidiaceae ( 6 genera ), APA clade ( Alseuosmiaceae, Phellinaceae and Argophyllaceae ( 7 genera )) and MGCA clade ( Menyanthaceae, Goodeniaceae, Calyceraceae-total 20 genera ), and Asteraceae ( 1600 genera ).
Other Asterales are Rousseaceae ( 4 genera ), Campanulaceae ( 84 genera ) and Pentaphragmataceae ( 1 genus ).
Thirteen of the total of about 20 genera are endemic to temperate South America.
The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).
, the following genera are included in the Allioideae:
Several genera are popular with the horticultural community, including marigold, pot marigold ( also known as calendula ), cone flowers, various daisies, fleabane, chrysanthemums, dahlias, zinnias, and heleniums.
They are petiolate or perfoliate and more or less sheathing, the blade usually dissected and pinnatifid, but entire in some genera.
It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species ; and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber-flora.
There are two genera included here.
Although there has been considerable revision of this phylum ( the order Haemosporidia now has 17 genera rather than 9 ) it seems likely these numbers are still approximately correct.
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Some members of the genera Ambystoma and Dicamptodon have larvae that never fully develop into the adult form but this varies with species and with populations.
The iris family contains about 70 genera and over 1, 600 species with a worldwide distribution.
The broadly defined family is large, with some 153 genera and 2480 species, and occurs worldwide.
As understood, the order contains about 165 genera in 13 families, with a cosmopolitan distribution.
The family is large, with more than 3, 700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants.
This is one of numerous genera with the common name " lily " due to their flower shape and growth habit.
* the gregarines ( subclass Gregarinasida ) with 1624 named species and 231 named genera
* the hemogregarines ( family Haemogregarinidae ) with 399 species and 4 genera
* the eimeriorins ( order Eimeriorida ) with 1771 species and 43 genera
* the hemospororids ( order Haemosporasina ) with 444 species and 9 genera
* the piroplasmids ( order Piroplasmorida ) with 173 species and 20 genera
Both the number of families in this later suborder is debated with the number of families being between one and twenty depending on the authority and the number of genera being between nineteen and twenty five.
2002 ) suggests that Capparaceae as traditionally circumscribed are paraphyletic with respect to Brassicaceae, with Cleome and several related genera being more closely related to Brassicaceae than to other Capparaceae.
However, around the Mediterranean they include also a dozen woody shrubs 1m-3m tall, e. g. in northern Africa ( Zilla spinosa and Ptilotrichum spinosum ), in the Dalmatian islands ( Dendralyssum and Cramboxylon ), and chiefly in Canarias with some woody cruciferous genera: Dendrosinapis, Descurainia, Parolinia, Stanleya, etc ..
Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.
The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.
Some species and genera had a very wide distribution with only minor variations.
Although not known with certainty the total number of species in the family, conservative estimates indicate approximately 2. 600 species worldwide, distributed in 109 genera.
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The Asteliaceae is a family of two to four genera of plants found in the Southern Hemisphere.
The family Araceae alone accounts for about a hundred genera, totaling over two thousand species.
At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.
The two genera, Triops and Lepidurus, are considered living fossils, having not changed significantly in outward form since the Triassic.
Remaining cacti fall into only two genera, Pereskia and Maihuenia, and are rather different, which means that any description of cacti as a whole must frequently make exceptions for them.
Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct.
May consist of two or more genera ; alternatively may include Haematospiza and Uragus )
From the Middle Ages onwards, the European species were considered two separate groups or genera, Stoechas ( LL.
Endemic fish of Madagascar include two families, 14 genera and over 100 species, primarily inhabiting the island's freshwater lakes and rivers.
The family Peridiscaceae has been expanded from two genera, to three, and then to four, and transferred to Saxifragales.
and were members of the family Elephantidae, which contains, along with mammoths, the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.
Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21, 950 and 26, 049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera.
Wood, think that there is a difference between Australopithecus and Paranthropus, and that there should be two genera.
Four species are living, in two families and genera.
Originally, it consisted of two closely related genera, Peridiscus and Whittonia.
The nine commercially important species of salmon occur in two genera.
The most recent reclassification moves two species previously placed in Cardaminopsis and Hylandra and three species of Arabis into Arabidopsis, but excludes 50 that have been moved into the new genera Beringia, Crucihimalaya, Ianhedgea, Olimarabidopsis, and Pseudoarabidopsis.
Within Lorisinae, there are seven species of lorises in two genera.
Several new species have been discovered, and they are now grouped into three genera, with the two former members of the now defunct genus Galagoides returned to their original genus Galago:
While the fossil record of hippos is still poorly understood, the two modern genera, Hippopotamus and Choeropsis ( sometimes Hexaprotodon ), may have diverged as far back as.
They are generally divided into two subfamilies which in turn comprise some 43 genera.
The two main subfamilies are the Anophelinae and Culicinae, with their genera as shown in the subsection below.
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