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Las Estacas Natural Reserve And Spa
Las Estacas Natural Reserve and Spa (Spanish: Balneario Las Estacas) is a mineral spring, day spa and natural reserve located in the town of Tlaltizapan, in the state of Morelos, Mexico. The natural reserve is a protected area for plants and wildlife since 1998; the protected area has and harbors a first magnitude spring with a flow rate of 6,700 L/s. History In 1940, Julio Calderon Fuentes acquired Las Estacas from Hacienda of Temilpa. In 1941, Calderon opened Las Estacas to tourists as a spa day and country ranch. The name of Las Estacas derives from its history when the residents dug stakes in the shore of the river to control the water level and water their fields. The reserve has been a protected area since 1998. Geography The territory of the natural reserve and spa belongs to the Morelos-Guerrero Mesozoic basin which in the north adjoins with the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and in the south, west and east is surrounded by the Sierra Madre del Sur. Las Estacas is in the ...
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White-tailed Deer
The white-tailed deer (''Odocoileus virginianus''), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. It has also been introduced to New Zealand, all the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean (Cuba, Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ..., Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), and some countries in Europe, such as the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Romania and Serbia. In the Americas, it is the most widely distributed wild ungulate. In North America, the species is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains as well as in southwestern Arizona and most of Mexico, except Baja California peninsula, Lower California. It is mostly displaced by the black ...
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Astyanax Aeneus
''Astyanax aeneus'', the banded tetra, is a small species of fish native to southern Central America and northern South America. It can be found in a variety of environments, including lakes, rivers, ponds, and slightly brackish locales like lagoons. As well as a varied habitat, it has a varied omnivorous diet: algae, seeds, leaves, insects, and fish fry appear to be the most common. The IUCN considers ''A. aeneus'' a species of least concern, given its widespread habitat and hardy nature. Various threats throughout its range appear to have little impact on overall survivability. Despite a comparatively-short reproductive period, individuals also demonstrate high fecundity, which assists in maintaining a stable population. Description ''Astyanax aeneus'' has silver sides, a white belly, and a greenish-brown back. There is a black rhomboidal shape on the caudal peduncle that extends to the tips of the middle caudal rays, but the fins are mostly transparent otherwise. Occasionall ...
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Heterandria Bimaculata
''Heterandria'' is a genus of livebearing fishes within the family Poeciliidae. Most species occur in Guatemala and its surroundings, particularly Mexico, but the midget livebearer ('' H. formosa'') comes from the southeastern United States. Though many Poecilidae are familiar aquarium fishes, e.g. guppies, mollies, platys and swordtails, species within ''Heterandria'' are not commonly kept as fish. Somewhat more frequently found in aquaria is ''H. formosa'', perhaps because it is one of the smallest known fish species in the world; its diminutive males are probably the smallest fish easy to keep as a pet. Species in this genus resemble egg-laying Cyprinodontoidei such as Fundulidae (topminnows) at first glance, and are thus sometimes called " killifish" though this is technically erroneous.FishBase (2009)''Heterandria'' species Retrieved April 8, 2009. Species FishBase currently recognize 3 species in this genus, but based on genetics, external characters, morphometr ...
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Poecilia Maylani
''Poecilia'' is a genus of fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes. These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some species in the genus are euryhaline. A few have adapted to living in waters that contain high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide ()Palacios, Arias-Rodriguez, Plath, Eifert, Lerp, Lamboj, Voelker, & Tobler (2013). The Rediscovery of a Long Described Species Reveals Additional Complexity in Speciation Patterns of Poeciliid Fishes in Sulfide Springs.' PLoS ONE 8(8): e71069. and a population of '' P. mexicana'' lives in caves (other populations of this species are surface-living). Some common and widespread species are often kept as aquarium fish, while other have very small ranges and are seriously threatened. All species in ''Poecilia'' are called mollies except for the Endler's livebearer (''P. wingei'') and the well-known guppy (''P. reticulata'') which have a distinctly different body shape from th ...
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Pileated Flycatcher
The pileated flycatcher (''Xenotriccus mexicanus'') is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae; it is endemic to western Mexico.Garcia et al. It is a small bird with gray feathers, white chest, yellow beak and a pointed gray-feathered tip on the top if its head. The flycatcher's natural habitat is subtropical forest, but during the summer it is found in tropical high-altitude scrubland. Their diet consists mainly of insects. Deforestation has affected the pileated flycatcher's population; it is now thought to be 20,000 to 50,000 birds. The flycatcher is currently considered of least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ..., and does not approach any of the criteria to be considered a "threatened species". Deforestation has increased every year around the world ...
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Amaurospiza Relicta
The Cabanis's seedeater (''Amaurospiza concolor'') is a species of bird in the cardinal family Cardinalidae that the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) accepted as a species in 2015. (But see the taxonomy section below.) It is found southern Mexico and Central America. Taxonomy and systematics In 2015 the IOC split the subspecies ''Amaurospiza concolor aequatorialis'' from the blue seedeater (''Amaurospiza concolor'' sensu lato) as the Ecuadorean seedeater (''Amaurospiza aequatorialis'') and renamed ''A. concolor'' Cabanis's seedeater. The decision was based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014. However, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) had previously rejected the split, and as of May 2021 the AOS North American Committee has not considered it and the Clements taxonomy has not adopted it.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. ...
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Beautiful Sheartail
The beautiful sheartail or beautiful hummingbird (''Calothorax pulcher'') is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is endemic to Mexico.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The beautiful sheartail shares genus ''Calothorax'' with the Lucifer sheartail (''C. lucifer''). It is monotypic. Description The beautiful sheartail is long and weighs about . Both sexes have a long, slightly decurved, black bill. Males have metallic bronze green upperparts and a white stripe behind the eye. Their gorget is metallic magenta purple that is more violet and blue to the rear; the rear feathers are elongated. The breast is grayish white, th ...
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Ctenosaura Pectinata
''Ctenosaura pectinata'' is a species of moderately large lizard in the family Iguanidae. The species is native to western Mexico. The standardized English name is the western spiny-tailed iguana. Liner, Ernest A., and Gustavo Casas-Andreu (2008). ''Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico.'' Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162. However, an earlier edition of standardized names applied the name Mexican spinytailed iguana to ''Ctenosaura pectinata''.Liner, E.A. (1994). ''Scientific and common names for the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish.'' Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 23: i-iii, 1-113. Confoundedly the name Mexican spiny-tailed iguana was applied to '' Ctenosaura acanthura'' which was referred to as the northeastern spinytailed iguana in the earlier edition of standardized names. It has also been called simply the sp ...
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Bursera áptera
''Bursera'' is a genus with about 100 described species of flowering shrubs and trees varying in size up to high. It is the type genus for Burseraceae. The trees are native (often for many species endemic) to the Americas, from the southern United States south through to northern Argentina, in tropical and warm temperate forest habitats. It is named after the 17th-century Danish botanist Joachim Burser. Several Mexican species (such as '' B. aloexylon'' and '' B. delpechiana'') produce a type of wood known as ''linaloe'' (from Mexican Spanish , from Latin , ). They contain the aromatic oil linalool. A number of species from tropical Asia were once included in this genus, but are now treated in the genus ''Protium''. Species list sources : Formerly placed here *''Canarium paniculatum'' (Lam.) Benth. ex Engl. (as ''B. paniculata'' Lam.) *''Protium serratum'' (Wall. ex Colebr.) Engl. (as ''B. serrata'' Wall. ex Colebr.) Uses * Caranna, medicinal gum Gallery Image:Burse ...
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Morelos
Morelos (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 36 municipalities and its capital city is Cuernavaca. Morelos is a landlocked state located in South Central Mexico. It is bordered by Mexico City to the north, and by the states of México to the northeast and northwest, Puebla to the east and Guerrero to the southwest. Morelos is the second-smallest state in the nation, just after Tlaxcala. It was part of a very large province, the State of Mexico, until 1869 when Benito Juárez decreed that its territory would be separated and named in honor of José María Morelos y Pavón, who defended the city of Cuautla from royalist forces during the Mexican War of Independence. Most of the state enjoys a warm climate year-round, which is good for the raising of sugar cane and other crops. Morelos has attracted visitors from the Valley of ...
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Lysiloma Tergemina
''Lysiloma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus is native to the Americas, and species range from Arizona and New Mexico through Mexico and Central America to Costa Rica, and in Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos Islands."''Lysiloma'' Benth.". ''Plants of the World Online'', Kew Science. Accessed 26 August 2021/ref> Species There are eight accepted species: * ''Lysiloma acapulcense'' (Kunth) Benth. Mexico to Nicaragua * ''Lysiloma auritum'' (Schltdl.) Benth. southern Mexico to Costa Rica * ''Lysiloma candidum'' Brandegee Baja California Peninsula * ''Lysiloma divaricatum'' (Jacq.) J.F.Macbr. Mexico to Costa Rica * ''Lysiloma latisiliquum'' (L.) Benth. – false tamarind. Southern Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Florida. * ''Lysiloma sabicu'' Benth. – sabicu, horseflesh. southeastern Mexico, Cuba, Hispaniola, Bahamas, Florida * ''Lysiloma tergeminum'' Benth. central and southwestern Mexico * ''Lysilom ...
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