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pacas and genus
* Pacas ( genus Cuniculus, which was formerly called Agouti ), contains the two species of pacas and is the only genus in the family Cuniculidae
Confusingly, the related pacas were placed by some authorities in a genus called Agouti, though Cuniculus has priority and is the correct term ( Woods and Kilpatrick, 2005 ).

pacas and are
Like the common agoutis, but unlike the much larger pacas, acouchis are active at day and feed on fruit.
Also there are pumas, coatis, weasels, skunks, foxes, porcupines, pacas, shrews, rabbits and other rodents.
In the wild, pacas are herbivores, meaning they eat only plants.

pacas and Dasyproctidae
Sometimes the word agouti is also used for a polyphyletic grouping uniting the families Cuniculidae and Dasyproctidae, which, besides the pacas and common agoutis, includes also the acouchis ( Myoprocta ).

pacas and they
Initially they hunted tapirs, deer, pacas, monkeys, and birds, but diminished those populations and turned to pigs, corn, beans, vegetables, fruits, herbs and livestock.

pacas and ).
Habitats range from grasslands ( maras ), high mountains ( chinchillas and chinchilla rats ), forest edges ( prehensile-tailed porcupines ) and dense tropical forests ( pacas and acouchis ).

genus and Cuniculus
Cuniculus is the appropriate genus name instead of Agouti based on a 1998 ruling of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as the Lowland Paca's genus.
The genus Cuniculus contains the two species of paca.

genus and are
We are concerned not with the genus communism nor with other species of the genus: Platonic, Stoic, early Christian, monastic, canonist or theological communism ; ;
Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.
Giant salamanders of the genus Andrias, as well as Ceratophrine and Pyxicephalus frogs possess sharp teeth and are capable of drawing blood with a defensive bite.
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.
Along with the other genus in the Boryaceae family, Alania, these xerophytic plants are native to Australia.
The two species of Doryanthes, the only genus of the family, are huge rosette-forming herbs that are a conspicuous element of the flora in the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, being hard not to notice when in flower.
The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.
Other Asterales are Rousseaceae ( 4 genera ), Campanulaceae ( 84 genera ) and Pentaphragmataceae ( 1 genus ).
These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.
Amaranths are recorded as food plants for some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the nutmeg moth and various case-bearer moths of the genus Coleophora: C. amaranthella, C. enchorda ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. immortalis ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. lineapulvella and C. versurella ( recorded on A. spinosus ).
Plants of the genus Amaryllis are known as belladonna lily, Jersey lily, naked lady, amarillo or, in South Africa, March lily.
Members of the southeast Asian planthopper genus Ancyra are well known for having a pair of prolonged filaments at the tips of the forewings that arise near a pair of small glossy spots ; this creates the impression of a pair of antennae, with corresponding " eyes " ( a remarkable case of automimicry ).
Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix " ine " to the species or genus name.
In Aristotle, substances are to be clarified by stating their definition: a note expressing a larger class ( the genus ) followed by further notes expressing specific differences ( differentiae ) within the class.
The species, the genus and the difference are all equally being: a being is a being that is being.
Like other members of the genus, all three are aerobes capable of producing endospores.
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.
These characteristics originally defined the genus, but not all such species are closely related, and many have been moved to other genera.
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.
Zebrafish are also closely related to the genus Devario, as demonstrated by a phylogenetic tree of close species.
Sponges are known from spicules and anchor ropes, and include various forms such as the Calcispongea Cotyliscus and Girtycoelia, the demosponge Chaetetes, and the genus of unusual colonial glass sponges Titusvillia.

genus and placed
The genus Cyanastrum is sometimes placed in its own family Cyanastraceae.
At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.
In early taxonomic treatments, the current members of the Branchiopoda were all placed in a single genus, Monoculus.
These classifications are arbitrary, and most taxonomies over the twentieth century have placed the chipmunks in a single genus.
This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent reviews of phylogenetic research have placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
It seems likely that they will be placed into a new genus or family in the next revision of the taxonomy of this group.
Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.
The species was not placed in its own genus, Pinguinus, until 1791.
The gray whale is traditionally placed as the only living species in its genus and family.
John Edward Gray placed it in its own genus in 1865, naming it in honour of zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
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 Protea, and hence P. cynaroides, is placed under the tribe Proteae.
Kumquats or cumquats are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, either forming the genus Fortunella, or placed within Citrus sensu lato.
* Subgenus Sabaudia constitutes two species in the southwest Arabian peninsula and Eritrea, which are rather distinct from the other species, and are sometimes placed in their own genus Sabaudia.
In it Louis placed the fossil in Broom's Australopithecinae family, creating a new genus for it, Zinjanthropus, species boisei.
There is currently no consensus in the scientific community whether P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus should be placed into a distinct genus, Paranthropus, which is believed to have evolved from the ancestral Australopithecus line.
Earlier descriptions of the species placed it within the genus Columba, but it was transferred to a monotypic genus due to the greater length of the tail and wings.
It has sometimes been placed in the genus Diopecephalus because Harry Govier Seeley based this genus partly on the P. longicollum material.
Male Pteranodon sternbergi, the older species of the two described to date ( and sometimes placed in the distinct genus Geosternbergia ), had a more vertical crest with a broad forward projection, while their descendants, Pteranodon longiceps, evolved a narrower, more backward-projecting crest.
He placed P. sternbergi into the genus named by Miller, Geosternbergia, along with the Pierre Shale skull specimen which Bennett had previously considered to be a large male P. longiceps.

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