[permalink] [id link]
The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic, Haiti ), Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
species and range
The fully neutral form ( structure ( 1 ) on the right ) is a very minor species in aqueous solution throughout the pH range ( less than 1 part in 10 < sup > 7 </ sup >).
The thick inner layer of the shell is composed of nacre or mother-of-pearl, which in many species is highly iridescent, giving rise to a range of strong and changeable colors, which make the shells attractive to humans as decorative objects, and as a source of colorful mother-of-pearl.
The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
Starting with a recent single ancestor, this process results in the speciation and phenotypic adaptation of an array of species exhibiting different morphological and physiological traits with which they can exploit a range of divergent environments.
For higher values, the surface diffusion of deposited atomic species would allow for the formation of crystallites with long range atomic order.
The class Cheilostomata have the largest number of species, possibly because they have the widest range of specialist zooids.
This article compares the properties of brains across the entire range of animal species, with the greatest attention to vertebrates.
Nevertheless, there are a number of principles of brain architecture that apply across a wide range of species.
Some aspects of brain structure are common to almost the entire range of animals species ; others distinguish " advanced " brains from more primitive ones, or distinguish vertebrates from invertebrates.
The relationship between brain size, body size and other variables has been studied across a wide range of vertebrate species.
While the brown bear's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN with a total population of approximately 200, 000.
Even species with lower population numbers now ( such as Siberian or Whooping Cranes ) are found over a considerable range in their migratory movements.
They overlap in range with 3 other crane species but interactions with these species and other " large wader " type birds are not known.
Multiple applications of numerous herbicides were routinely used to control a wide range of weed species detrimental to agronomic crops.
This is because Canoidea tend to range in the temperate and subarctic biomes, although Mustelidae and Procyonidae have a few tropical species.
This is because these species tend to range in tropical habitats, although a few species do inhabit temperate and subarctic habitats.
Large collections of bird fossils representing a range of different species provides definitive evidence for the persistence of archaic birds to within 300, 000 years of the K – Pg boundary.
Listing the species over the whole of its range would prevent such ‘ laundering ’ but also restricts trade in wildlife products by range states with good management practices.
Gardeners can grow a range of cultivars, many of which differ little from the wild species, mainly in having stouter leaf stems.
Canis lupus is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, as its relatively widespread range and stable population trend mean that the species, at global level, does not meet, or nearly meet, any of the criteria for the threatened categories.
Capybaras are on the IUCN list, but are not considered a threatened species ; their population is stable through most of their South American range, though in some areas, hunting has reduced their numbers.
Some are non-specialist detritus feeders, breaking down animal and plant debris ; some feed on particular kinds of carrion such as flesh or hide ; some feed on wastes such as dung ; some feed on fungi, some on particular species of plants, others on a wide range of plants.
species and from
They've got a big vulture from Tanganika at the zoo here, with a wife for him, too, very rare birds, both of them, the only Vulturidae of their species outside Africa.
There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.
The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.
All modern amphibians are included in the subclass Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, which is usually considered a clade, a group of species that have evolved from a common ancestor.
A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.
The development of the young of Ichthyophis glutinosus, a species from Sri Lanka, has been much studied.
Typhlonectes compressicauda, a species from South America, is typical of these.
In most species, the sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs over the vocal cords into an air sac or sacs in the throat or at the corner of the mouth.
Altogether, over two hundred toxins have been isolated from the limited number of amphibian species that have been investigated.
A Lewis acid is a species that accepts a pair of electrons from another species ; in other words, it is an electron pair acceptor.
The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.
The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.
The subfamily includes 59 genera and approximately 800 species from temperate and tropical regions worldwide.
Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America.
Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.
These teeth show " primitive morphology and wear pattern " which demonstrate that A. kadabba is a distinct species from A. ramidus.
The color of the shell is very variable from species to species, and may reflect the animal's diet.
However, the species of sea snail which is known in the seafood trade as the " Chilean abalone ", Concholepas concholepas, is from another family altogether.
Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.
In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
Approximately 60 species are recognized, with inflorescences and foliage ranging from purple and red to green or gold.
Ailanthus are capable of forming thick blankets of roots and heavy shade to the extent that native species are prevented from being able to reclaim an area that has been logged or deforested, as well as areas that have been heavily developed.
Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.
0.103 seconds.