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Deroceras Rodnae
''Deroceras rodnae'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Agriolimacidae. Taxonomy ''Deroceras rodnae'' was originally described from the Rodna Mountains in Romania by Romanian malacologists Alexandru Vasile Grossu and Dochiţa Lupu in 1965. The figure in the original description is inadequate, but Wiktor (1973) inspected the type specimen and found it to agree with one of the forms of ''Deroceras praecox'' that he had described at about the same time (Wiktor, 1966). The name ''Deroceras rodnae'' has priority for that form and ''Deroceras praecox'' is now restricted to a form with a curved pocket at the end of the penis. Recently Hutchinson & Reise (2009) showed that western populations of ''Deroceras rodnae'' mate in a way so incompatible with that of populations from the east that they must be different species. The morphological differences in preserved specimens are subtle but molecular analyses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandru Vasile Grossu
Alexandru is the Romanian language, Romanian form of the name Alexander. Common diminutives are Alecu, Alex (other), Alex, and Sandu (other), Sandu. Origin Etymology, Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek language, Greek "Αλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "defending men" or "protector of men", a compound of the verb "ἀλέξω" (alexō), "to ward off, to avert, to defend" and the noun "ἀνδρός" (andros), genitive of "ἀνήρ" (anēr), "man". It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek (or Indo-European more generally) names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy shield wall, battle line. The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun ''a-re-ka-sa-da-ra'', (transliterated as ''Alexandra''), written in Linear B syllabic script. The name was one of the titles ("epithets") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |