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Blasicrura Luchuana
''Blasicrura'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Species Species within the genus ''Blasicrura'' include according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) *'' Blasicrura interrupta'' (Gray, 1824) *'' Blasicrura pallidula'' (Gaskoin, 1849) **''Blasicrura pallidula luchuana'' Kuroda, 1960 **''Blasicrura pallidula pallidula'' (Gaskoin, 1849-a) *''Blasicrura summersi'' (Schilder, 1958) The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following names in current use *'' Blasicrura luchuana'' (Kuroda, 1960) *''Blasicrura quadrimaculata'' (Gray, 1824): accepted by WoRMS as ''Eclogavena quadrimaculata'' (J.E. Gray, 1824) ;Species brought into synonymy: *''Blasicrura alisonae'' Burgess, 1983: synonym of ''Blasicrura pellucens'' (Melvill, 1888) *''Blasicrura coxeni'' (Cox, 1873): synonym of ''Eclogavena coxeni'' (Cox, 1873) *''Blasicrura dani'' Beals, 2002: synonym of ''Eclogavena dani'' (Beals, 2002) *''Blasicrura da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a zoological name. Gray was keeper of zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874, before the natural history holdings were split off to the Natural History Museum. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups and descriptions of new species. He improved the zoological collections to make them amongst the best in the world. Biography Gray was born in Walsall, but his family soon moved to London, where Gray studied medicine. He assisted his father in writing ''The Natural Arrangement of British Plants'' (1821). After being blackballed by the Linnean Society of London, Gray shifted his interest from botany to zoology. He began his zoologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bistolida Goodallii
''Bistolida'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Species Species within the genus ''Bistolida'' include: *''Bistolida brevidentata'' (George Brettingham Sowerby II, Sowerby, 1870) *'' Bistolida diauges'' (James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist), Melvill, 1888) *''Bistolida erythraeensis'' (George Brettingham Sowerby I, Sowerby, 1837) * ''Bistolida fuscomaculata'' (Pease, 1865) *''Bistolida goodallii'' (George Brettingham Sowerby I, Sowerby, 1832) *''Bistolida hirundo'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) *''Bistolida kieneri'' (Hidalgo, 1906) * ''Bistolida nanostraca'' Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2012 *''Bistolida owenii'' (George Brettingham Sowerby I, Sowerby, 1837) * ''Bistolida piae'' Lorenz & Chiapponi, 2005 *''Bistolida stolida'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) *''Bistolida ursellus'' (Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Gmelin, 1791) * Bistolida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brettingham Sowerby I
George Brettingham Sowerby I (12 August 1788 – 26 July 1854) was a British naturalist, illustrator and conchologist. Life He was the second son of James Sowerby. George was educated at home under private tutors, and afterwards assisted his father in the production of illustrated works on natural history. On the latter's death in 1822, he and his brother James De Carle Sowerby continued their father's work on fossil shells, publishing the latter parts of the ''Mineral Conchology of Great Britain''. He published about 50 papers on molluscs and started several comprehensive, illustrated books on the subject, the most important the ''Thesaurus Conchyliorum'', a work that was continued by his son, George Brettingham Sowerby II and his grandson George Brettingham Sowerby III. One of his first works was the cataloguing of the collection of the Earl of Tankerville. He also dealt in shells and natural history objects, his place of business being first in King Street, Covent Garden, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclogavena Dayritiana
''Eclogavena'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Species Species within the genus ''Eclogavena'' include: *''Eclogavena coxeni'' (Cox, 1873) *''Eclogavena dani'' (Beals, 2002) *''Eclogavena dayritiana'' (Cate, 1963) * ''Eclogavena hesperina'' (Schilder & Summers, 1963) *''Eclogavena luchuana'' (Tokubei Kuroda, Kuroda, 1960) *''Eclogavena quadrimaculata'' (John Edward Gray, Gray, 1824) * ''Eclogavena steineri'' (C. N. Cate, 1969) References * Schilder, M. & Schilder, F. A. (1971) A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. A taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea (Gastropoda Prosobranchia). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Mémoires, Deuxième Series, 85: 1-246 External links Iredale, T. (1930). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 2. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10(1): 73-88, pl. 9 Cypraeidae {{Cypraeidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclogavena Dani
''Eclogavena dani'' is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ... Cypraeidae, the cowries. Description Distribution References * Bouchet, P.; Fontaine, B. (2009). ''List of new marine species described between 2002–2006.'' Census of Marine Life. Cypraeidae Gastropods described in 2002 {{Cypraeidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclogavena Coxeni
''Eclogavena coxeni'', common name Cox's cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Description ''Eclogavena coxeni'' has a shell reaching a length of 14–32 mm. Distribution This species can be found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita .... References WoRMSEncyclopedia of LifeBiolib* External links Conchology Cypraeidae Gastropods described in 1873 {{Cypraeidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist)
James Cosmo Melvill (1 July 1845 – 4 November 1929) was a British botany, botanist and malacology, malacologist who collected plants in Europe and North America. Family Melvill was born at Hampstead, London, on 1 July 1845. He was a grandson of British administrator in India, Sir James Cosmo Melvill (1792–1861), his father being the latter's second son, also James Cosmo Melvill (1821–1880), onetime assistant Under-Secretary of state for India. His mother was Eliza Jane, daughter of Alfred Hardcastle of Hatcham House, Surrey. Melvill married on 30 July 1874, Bertha, daughter of George C. Dewhurst of Lymm, Cheshire and Aberuchill Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. The couple had two sons and four daughters. Education and career Melvill was educated at Harrow School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1864. He graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1864, and Master of Arts (MA) in 1871. in later life he became an honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) from Manchester U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclogavena Quadrimaculata
''Eclogavena quadrimaculata'', the four-spotted cowry, is a species of sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Subspecies *''Eclogavena quadrimaculata quadrimaculata'' (Gray, 1824) *''Eclogavena quadrimaculata thielei'' Schilder & Schilder, 1938 Description Shells of ''Eclogavena quadrimaculata'' can reach a size of . The surface of these cylindrical shells may be whitish, pale grey or pale blue, with many small brown flecks and with two large rather triangular dark brown spots at each end (hence the common name and the Latin species name ''quadrimaculata''). These shells are completely white or pale yellowish underneath. Teeth are raised, not coloured and spread right across base up to the margin. The living animal shows a dark brown or black mantle with small white or pinkish spots. Distribution This species is present in Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WoRMS
Worms may refer to: *Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs Places *Worms, Germany, a city **Worms (electoral district) *Worms, Nebraska, U.S. *Worms im Veltlintal, the German name for Bormio, Italy Arts and entertainment * ''Worms'' (film), a 2013 Brazilian animated film * ''Worms'' (series), a series of video games, including: ** ''Worms'' (1995 video game), the first game in the series ** ''Worms'' (2007 video game), for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and iOS *''Worms?'', 1983 computer game Other uses *Worms (infection), common name for Helminthiasis *Parasitic worms (other) *Worms (surname), a surname *World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) See also * *Worm (other) * Diet of Worms (other) *Worms & Cie Sequana Capital was a French pulp and paper company. History The company was founded as a coal importing business known as Worms and Cie in 1848. After diversifying into banking and finance it acquired Arjo W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blasicrura Luchuana
''Blasicrura'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Species Species within the genus ''Blasicrura'' include according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) *'' Blasicrura interrupta'' (Gray, 1824) *'' Blasicrura pallidula'' (Gaskoin, 1849) **''Blasicrura pallidula luchuana'' Kuroda, 1960 **''Blasicrura pallidula pallidula'' (Gaskoin, 1849-a) *''Blasicrura summersi'' (Schilder, 1958) The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following names in current use *'' Blasicrura luchuana'' (Kuroda, 1960) *''Blasicrura quadrimaculata'' (Gray, 1824): accepted by WoRMS as ''Eclogavena quadrimaculata'' (J.E. Gray, 1824) ;Species brought into synonymy: *''Blasicrura alisonae'' Burgess, 1983: synonym of ''Blasicrura pellucens'' (Melvill, 1888) *''Blasicrura coxeni'' (Cox, 1873): synonym of ''Eclogavena coxeni'' (Cox, 1873) *''Blasicrura dani'' Beals, 2002: synonym of ''Eclogavena dani'' (Beals, 2002) *''Blasicrura da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
