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Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
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Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Aardema, M.L. and J. M. Scriber. 2013. No evidence the male mate choice contributes to maintenance of a shared, sex-limited trait in mimetic and non-mimetic female tiger swallowtail butterflies, Papilio glaucus. Evolutionary Biology 40: 108-116. Ahmed, M. Z., E. C. Greyvenstein, J. J. Welch, and
A new genus of Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea), from New Guinea, with
Cookiecutter Shark Isistius brasiliensis This small, cigar-shaped shark is dark brown on top and light on the underside, with a darker band around its neck. The light underside glows, attracting fish, whales, and sharks. It attaches itself to the prey and uses its serrated bottom teeth to cu
In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, it is found from Cape Verde, Guinea to Sierra Leone
Florida Museum of Natural History invertebrate zoology curator Gustav Paulay discusses his mission to fully document the marine biodiversity of Florida’s Gulf Coast. Originally developed as a „before-and-after“ resource for future environmental disasters, Gustav explains the project also led to some
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It’s the end of the semester at UF which means we will soon be saying goodbye to our crack team of student assistants. Throughout this semester (and in many cases longer) they have tackled many collections tasks. This includes entering specimen data into a spreadsheet for importing, often from hand
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
This year’s winners of the Archie F. Carr Medal, which honors the late conservationist Archie Carr, are the first of his former students to receive the award. The Florida Museum of Natural History honored Karen Bjorndal and Peter Pritchard with the 2017 Archie F. Carr Medal Nov. 15 for promoting
giant fossil side-necked turtle from Colombia and a snake-necked turtle from New Guinea
Christmas is almost here, and the season-appropriate songs are filling the radio waves and ears of last-minute shoppers. Among them are mistletoe songs, which, every time I hear them, remind me of the butterflies that feed on them as caterpillars. Here, in Florida, these are the Great Purple (actual
For instance, in the Pacific (e.g., New Guinea) and in the Southeast Asia, caterpillars
Wandering globe snail, Mesodon altivagus (Pilsbry, 1900) This large and beautiful snail is found in only one patch of spruce-fir and northern hardwood forest above 1500 meters on the highest summits of the Great Smoky Mountains. In the southern US spruce-fir forest is dominated by Fraser Fir (A
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Sea cucumber, Pearsonothuria graeffei Pearsonothuria graeffei is a member of the most diverse family of sea cucumbers on coral reefs, the Holothuriidae. Previously, it was considered a species of the genus Bohadschia, but was recently placed into its own genus,Pearsonothuria, because of its dis
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Barnacles Scientific name: Cirripedia (Infraorder) 1: Barnacles are crustaceans. Although they were once thought to be related to snails, it turns out that barnacles are actually related to crabs. If you look at the animal inside the hard plates, it is possible to recognize their crab-like bo
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