Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Wilder Westen

Naturalists noticed declining populations of the once-common Carolina Parakeets as early as the 1830s. By the end of the 19th century, they were restricted to Florida. These eggs, collected on the Kissimmee Prairie, may be the last sign of this once common bird. Summary Carolina Parakeet Eggs (C
It probably ranged from as far west as Colorado north to the northern part of the

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
“Very little is known about these animals in the wild, but there’s nothing particularly

Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large tooth sawfishes are most c
occasional contemporary records from Central America, Northern Brazil and a few West

The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea level rise in the country. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) still grows on a few scattered islands in the Caribb
Small noted that the Key tree cactus “was for a long time very abundant [on Key West

Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
recent example is a large butterfly that used to be known as Pseudodebis celia from western

The McGuire Center Lepidoptera collection includes a modest number of what are known as „type specimens.“ When researchers name and describe a new species or subspecies of butterfly or moth, they have a set of specimens before them that are closely examined in order write a verbal description and il
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Ahmed, M.Z., Breinholt, J.W., Kawahara, A.Y. 2016. Evidence for horizontal transmission of Wolbachia with partial evidence for lateral gene transfer to lepidopteran hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:118. Brandon, C.J and A. Sourakov. 2016. Evaluation of mechanical defense provided by pericarps o
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McGuire Center staff and students had a productive spring semester. Juliette Rubin from the Kawahara Lab completed her Ph.D., and her work on the Luna Moth has already resulted in two publications. In one study, she determined that the presence or absence of tails in males is not a factor in female
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Pristis zijsron Sawfish look a lot like sharks, but they are actually rays. Their unusual snout, or rostrum, is studded with „teeth“ (specialized scales) and is used to stun schooling fish by swinging side to side. The green sawfish is the largest species of sawfish, growing to 24 feet in length.
Lastly, the Pilbara region of Western Australia has been identified as an important

Bayarsaikhan, U., V.V. Dubatolov, J.B. Heppner, and Y.-S. Bae. 2017. Taxonomic review of genus Danielithosia Dubatolov & Kishida (Lepidop­tera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from northern Vietnam, with one new species. Zootaxa 4291:572-580. Breinholt, J.B., A. Lemmon, E. Lemmon, L. Xiao, C. Earl, and
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