Smalleye Hammerhead Sphyrna tudes Named for its unusually small eyes, which evolved due to its preference for muddy coastal waters. Sporting a distinctly flat and arched cephalophoil, or „hammerhead“, this species is can detect prey in the murkiest of waters. Order – Carcharhiniformes Fami
subtropical waters off the east coast of South America from Venezuela
Learn the difference between the common ceramic series of the Caribbean (Rouse 1992) with these cheat sheets from Collections Assistant Emily Kracht: A handy guide to Caribbean ceramic identification: Saladoid Fancy af One of the first series in the Caribbean Beginning of the „Cera
painting, with a glossy finish Est. 800-200 BC, in Venezuela
Personnel From The Past – Where Are They Now? Contact us to update info on previous Ichthyology and Florida Program for Shark Research staff and students. We’d like to keep up with what you all are doing now! Auffenberg, Kurt – Operations Coordinator, Florida Museum of Natural History (retired
, Tampa General Hospital Taphorn, Don – UNELLEZ, Venezuela
Keith Wilmott, associate curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, discusses his research on the biodiversity of butterflies, with a focus on euptychiine, a common yet diverse group. He spends time with research students in the Amazon every yea
Wilmott: I started studying them when I did a trip to Venezuela
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Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela
Number of sawfish encounter records in the International Sawfish Encounter Database by country (data from year 1782 to 2017) Number of sawfish encounter records by state in the International Sawfish Encounter Database (data from year 1782 to 2017) Location of the recovery regions established i
United States of America 8124 12,978 Vanuatu 1 1 Venezuela
Curator, Herbarium and Informatics Joint Professor, Department of Biology Ph.D. Natural History Museum, London & University of Reading, UK Email: ncellinese[at]flmnh.ufl.edu ORCID Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall, Rm. 354 1659 Museum Road Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
China, Australia South America: British Guyana, Venezuela
Please fill out the form below to reserve an Inquiry Box. Inquiry Boxes may be checked out for two weeks at a cost of $25/box. Teachers are responsible for picking up and returning the Inquiry Boxes to the Museum. In Alachua county and want a 45-minute educator presentation for your classroom? U
Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela
Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S. Florida Museum of Natural History scientists used DNA testing to identify the specimen as the Rio Ca
caecilian, Typhlonectes natans, a native of Colombia and Venezuela
A new species of bird from the heart of Peru remained undetected for years until researchers identified it by its unique song. In 1996, a group of Louisiana State University and Florida Museum of Natural History researchers traveled to the Cordillera Azul, an isolated mountain ridge in Peru,
because we didn’t have vocalizations of the birds in Venezuela
