Abstract The following list of non-marine gastropod fauna summarizes the known species and subspecies that are recognized from Mexico and Central America. It is an annotated list of 1789 terminal taxa presented in a hierarchical framework. These include 1491 native species plus 278 native subspecie
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
southeast Asia and the other in Australia and New Guinea
Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
found as far away as the highlands of Papua, New Guinea
So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
The island of Hispaniola once had among the highest rodent diversity in the Caribbean, supporting 11 species that coexisted for thousands of years. Today, only one rodent species remains within the island’s two countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and its prospects for survival are uncerta
Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea
Queen Angelfish Holacanthus ciliaris This vibrant oval-shaped reef fish has trailing dorsal and anal fins and a triangular tail. It is blue-green with blue and yellow highlights on its fins, and can be differentiated from the similar blue angelfish by the prominent dark ringed ‚crown‘ spot o
demoiselle royale (French), gele engelvis (Dutch), guinea
Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis This flat, almond-shaped fish has large, round dorsal and anal fins that match the caudal (tail) fin, giving it its ‚tripletail‘ name. It has a triangular head, and as it ages, the forehead grows more dramatically concave. It’s a coastal tropical fish that pre
as from Madeira Island (Portugal) to the Gulf of Guinea
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They’re produced by several different types of plants and are among the leading causes of accidental death in cattle. Plants that contain these alkaloids have made it very clear they don’t want to be consumed, but that
Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea
Austin, G. T. and A. D. Warren. 2007. The type of Copaeodes chromis Skinner, 1919 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Insecta Mundi, 0019:1-2. Austin, G. T., A. D. Warren, C. M. Penz, J. E. Llorente-Bousquets, A. Luis-Martinez and I. Vargas-Fernandez. 2007. A new species of Opsiphanes Double
from New Ireland Island, Bismark Islands, Papua New Guinea
Three grants from the National Science Foundation will enable the Florida Museum of Natural History’s invertebrate zoology division to contribute crucial specimen data and images to online research networks. The grants represent the first two major funding initiatives to digitize modern marine organ
Surveys of Papua New Guinea uncovered about 150 snail
