Iwasaki's Snail-eater
Iwasaki's snail-eater (''Pareas iwasakii'') is a species of snake in the family Pareidae. The species is endemic to the Yaeyama Islands in the southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Etymology The specific name, ''iwasakii'', is in honor of Japanese meteorologist Takuji Iwasaki. Ecology ''Pareas iwasakii'' is a snail-eating specialist; even newly hatched individuals feed on snails. It has asymmetric jaws, with more teeth on the right (about 25 teeth compared to 15 teeth on the left) which facilitates feeding on snails with dextral (clockwise coiled) shells. A consequence of this asymmetry is that ''Pareas iwasakii'' is much less adept at preying on sinistral (counterclockwise coiled) snails. It systematically directs its attack on snails from the right in order to insert its lower jaw into the shell opening. The selection pressure of this predator on snails of the genus Satsuma (en) has led to a significant increase in the proportion of snails with left-facing shells, known as le ...
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Japanese People
The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japanese people constitute 97.9% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 129 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 122.5 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live outside Japan are referred to as , the Japanese diaspora. Depending on the context, the term may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people). Japanese people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of multiracial people with both Japanese and non-Japanese roots, including half Japanese people. History Theories of origins Archaeological evidence indi ...
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Endemic Reptiles Of Japan
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ...
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Pareas
''Pareas'' is a genus of Asian snakes in the family Pareidae. All species in the genus ''Pareas'' are harmless to humans. Species ''Pareas'' contains the following species: (''Pareas menglaensis'', new species). (''Pareas kaduri'', new species). *''Pareas abros'' *''Pareas andersoniil'' – Anderson's slug snake *''Pareas atayal'' – Atayal slug-eating snake *''Pareas berdmorei'' – Mengla snail-eating snake *''Pareas boulengeri'' – Boulenger's slug snake *''Pareas carinatus'' – keeled slug snake *''Pareas chinensis'' – Chinese slug snake *''Pareas formosensis'' – Formosa slug snake, Taiwan slug snake *''Pareas geminatus'' – twin slug snake *''Pareas hamptoni'' – Hampton's slug snake *''Pareas iwasakii'' *'' Pareas kaduri'' *''Pareas komaii'' – Formosa slug snake *'' Pareas kuznetsovorum'' *'' Pareas macularius'' – mountain slug snake *'' Pareas margaritophorus'' – mountain slug snake *'' Pareas menglaensis'' – Mengla snail-eating snake *'' ...
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Levogyre
Levogyre can refer to: *In chemistry and biology, a synonym of levorotation, *In astronomy, the ''Levogyre'' is the long since discredited structure of the Universe proposed by ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus: A series of nested crystalline spheres which contains fixed stars and moving planets which rotate around an immovable Earth with each sphere connected a randomly distributed series by gimbal-like axes. *In art, ''The Levogyre'' is a 1974 painting by Paul Laffoley Paul Laffoley (August 14, 1935 – November 16, 2015) was an American visionary artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Paul Laffoley was born on August 14, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to an Irish Catholic family ...

Satsuma (gastropod)
''Satsuma'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Aegistini of the subfamily Bradybaeninae in the family Camaenidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Satsuma A. Adams, 1868. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818543 on 2020-12-15 Species Species within the genus ''Satsuma'' include: * '' Satsuma adiriensis'' C.-C. Hwang & S.-P. Wu, 2018 * '' Satsuma akiratadai'' Kameda & Fukuda, 2015 * '' Satsuma albida'' (H. Adams, 1870) * '' Satsuma auratibasis'' Wu, Hwang & Lin, 2008 * '' Satsuma bacca'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1866) * '' Satsuma bairdi'' (H. Adams, 1866) * '' Satsuma careocaecum'' Wu, Hwang & Lin, 2008 * '' Satsuma eucosmia'' (Pilsbry, 1895) * '' Satsuma ferruginea'' (Pilsbry, 1900) * '' Satsuma formosensis'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1866) * '' Satsuma hagiomontis'' Wu, Hwang & Lin, 2008 * '' Satsuma huberi'' Wu, Hwang & Lin, 2008 * '' Satsuma inkhavilayi'' P ...
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Skull Of Pareas Iwasakii
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, these two parts are the neurocranium and the viscerocranium (facial skeleton) that includes the mandible as its largest bone. The skull forms the anterior-most portion of the skeleton and is a product of cephalisation—housing the brain, and several sensory structures such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. In humans these sensory structures are part of the facial skeleton. Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to enable sound localisation of the direction and distance of sounds. In some animals, such as horned ungulates (mammals with hooves), the skull also has a defensive function by providing the mount (on the fronta ...
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Takuji Iwasaki
was a Japanese meteorologist, biologist, ethnologist historian. He was a meteorologist at the Ishigaki Weather Station, Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture. Initially, when weather forecasting was in its infancy, he had been badly criticized by local people when his forecast of a typhoon was incorrect. Nevertheless, his work as a meteorologist was better understood by locals later in his career, which endeared him to people. Other names Takuji was also known as 糸数原主人袋風荘主人,蝶仙、蝶翁. He was also called "天文屋の御主前" (tenbunyah no ushumai), meaning master of the weather observatory, or "nahbera no ushumai" (literal: master of sponge cucumber). Life Takuji was born on October 17, 1869, to a family of samurai in Sendai, a city in the Miyagi Prefecture. He discontinued high school and became a trainee at the Central Meteorological Station (now the Japan Meteorological Agency). He also worked at the weather stations of Nemuro and Sapporo. Takuji was statio ...
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Meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while those using mathematical models and knowledge to prepare daily weather forecasts are called ''weather forecasters'' or ''operational meteorologists''. Meteorologists work in government agencies, private consulting and research services, industrial enterprises, utilities, radio and television stations, and in education. They are not to be confused with weather presenters, who present the weather forecast in the media and range in training from journalists having just minimal training in meteorology to full fledged meteorologists. Description Meteorologists study the Earth's atmosphere and its interactions with the Earth's surface, the oceans and the biosphere. Their knowledge of applied mathematics and physics allows them to understand the ...
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Specific Name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen). The first part of the name of a species is the name of the genus or the generic name. The rules and regulations governing the giving of a new species name are explained in the article species description. For example, the scientific name for humans is ''Homo sapiens'', which is the species name, consisting of two names: ''Homo'' is the " generic name" (the name of the genus) and ''sapiens'' is the "specific name". Historically, ''specific name'' referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names. Carl Linnaeus, who formalized binomial nomenclature, made explicit distinctions between specific, generic, and trivial names. The generic name was that of the genus, the first in the binomial, the trivial name was the second name in the binomial, and the specific the proper term for ...
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Tetsuo Takara
Tetsuo may refer to: *Tetsuo (given name) *'' Tetsuo: The Iron Man'' *'' Tetsuo II: Body Hammer'' *'' Tetsuo: The Bullet Man'' * Tetsuo, a character in ''Akira (manga) is a Japanese cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. It was serialized biweekly in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Young Magazine'' from December 20, 1982, to June 25, 1990, with its 120 ...