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Doris Granosa
''Doris verrucosa'' is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Dorididae.Gofas, S. (2004)''Doris verrucosa'' Linnaeus, 1758.In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-12-03. Taxonomic history The initial description by Linnaeus was based on older descriptions by Rumphius and was possibly not the species called by this name by subsequent taxonomists. In order to stabilise the nomenclature the name ''Doris verrucosa'' was conserved by the creation of a neotype. Description ''Doris verrucosa'' is a yellow-brown oval nudibranch with a distinctive warty skin. It has eight gills arranged around the anus and its rhinophores are perfoliate. South African animals may reach a total length of 30 mm.Zsilavecz, G. (2007). ''Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay''. The maximum recorded length is 70 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gas ... [...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] |
