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Plagiopholis Unipostocularis
''Plagiopholis'' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is native to Asia. General Facts The species of the genus ''Plagiopholis'' are found in Southeast Asia, China and Taiwan. The snakes of this genus are mountainous species that can be found in grasses and bushes. They feed primarily on earthworms, frogs, and arthropods ( Zhao 2006). All species are oviparous, meaning they use internal fertilization to lay eggs. www.reptile-database.org. ''Plagiopholis'' species can be distinguished from other genera in the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae by their lower midbody scale count, entire anal plate, and smaller size (O'Shea 2018). List of species * ''Plagiopholis blakewayi'' – Blakeway's mountain snake * ''Plagiopholis delacouri'' * ''Plagiopholis nuchalis'' – Assam mountain snake * ''Plagiopholis styani'' – Chinese mountain snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plagiopholis Styani
''Plagiopholis styani'', also known by the common name Chinese mountain snake, is a species of colubrid snake. Its type locality is Kuatun (Guadun in modern spelling: ) in Wuyishan, Fujian. It is found in southern and central China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam. It is an uncommon species, and very rare in Taiwan. It is named after Frederick William Styan Frederick William Styan (1858 – 15 September 1934) was an English tea merchant who spent many years in China. During his stay he obtained numerous specimens of fauna which were donated to the British Museum (Natural History). Several species such ..., a Shanghai-based English tea merchant and ornithologist.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Plagiopholis styani'', p. 258). Description ''Plagiopholis styani'' is a small non-venomous snake, reaching a total length (including tail) of up to . Its upper head, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark O'Shea (herpetologist)
Mark Timothy O'Shea (born 9 May 1956) is an English herpetologist, photographer, author, lecturer, and television personality. He is known internationally as the presenter of the Animal Planet/Discovery Channel series ''O'Shea's Big Adventure''. Career Originally from Wolverhampton, Mark O'Shea moved to Shropshire in 2001. Since 1980, O'Shea has conducted herpetological fieldwork in over 30 countries on six continents but he has special interest in the Australo-Papuan region. He has worked in Papua New Guinea since 1986 when he first visited the country as a member of the scientific directing staff of Operation Raleigh. He continued fieldwork in the country as a member of the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine snakebite research team throughout the 1990s, and now researches there under the auspices of a fellowship from the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU), based in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne. In 2006 O'Shea designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plagiopholis
''Plagiopholis'' is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is native to Asia. General Facts The species of the genus ''Plagiopholis'' are found in Southeast Asia, China and Taiwan. The snakes of this genus are mountainous species that can be found in grasses and bushes. They feed primarily on earthworms, frogs, and arthropods ( Zhao 2006). All species are oviparous, meaning they use internal fertilization to lay eggs. www.reptile-database.org. ''Plagiopholis'' species can be distinguished from other genera in the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae by their lower midbody scale count, entire anal plate, and smaller size (O'Shea 2018). List of species * ''Plagiopholis blakewayi'' – Blakeway's mountain snake * ''Plagiopholis delacouri'' * ''Plagiopholis nuchalis'' – Assam mountain snake * ''Plagiopholis styani'' – Chinese mountain snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Théodore Delacour
Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He established very successful aviaries twice in his life, stocked with birds from around the world, including those that he obtained on expeditions to Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. His first aviary in Villers-Bretonneux was destroyed in World War One. The second one that he established at Clères was destroyed in World War Two. He moved to the United States of America where he worked on avian systematics and was one of the founders of the International Committee for Bird Protection (later BirdLife International). One of the birds he discovered was the imperial pheasant, later identified as a hybrid between the Vietnamese pheasant and the silver pheasant. Life and work Delacour was born in Paris into an aristocratic family and grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Watkins
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Michael or Mike Watkins may refer to: * Michael D. Watkins, American author * Michael M. Watkins, American engineer and scientist * Michael W. Watkins, American television producer * Mike Watkins (rugby union) (born 1952), Welsh rugby union player * Mike Watkins (basketball) (born 1995), American basketball player * Mike Watkins (American football) (born 1978), American football player * Mike K. Watkins (1947–1998), British explosive ordnance disposal expert commemorated at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War. It also serves as the place of commemoration for Canadian soldiers of the Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Beolens
Bo or BO may refer to Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theatre *Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots Gaming *'' Call of Duty: Black Ops'', a first-person shooter video game *'' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'', first in the Legacy of Kain video game series Music *Bo (instrument), a Chinese cymbal * Bo, a Greek rapper. Religion *Bo or Bodhi Tree *Bo (parsha), fifteenth weekly Torah reading Ethnic groups *Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China *Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic groups in Laos * Bo people (Andaman), a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands Human names * Bo (given name), name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname * Bo (surname), name origin, plus a list of people with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: [ˈmjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə]. So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as [mɑːr] or of Burma as [bɜːrmə] by some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad a, broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binomial Nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages. Such a name is called a binomial name (which may be shortened to just "binomial"), a binomen, name or a scientific name; more informally it is also historically called a Latin name. The first part of the name – the '' generic name'' – identifies the genus to which the species belongs, whereas the second part – the specific name or specific epithet – distinguishes the species within the genus. For example, modern humans belong to the genus ''Homo'' and within this genus to the species ''Homo sapiens''. ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is likely the most widely known binomial. The ''formal'' introduction of this system of naming species is credit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nota Bene
(, or ; plural form ) is a Latin phrase meaning "note well". It is often abbreviated as NB, n.b., or with the ligature and first appeared in English writing . In Modern English, it is used, particularly in legal papers, to draw the attention of the reader to a certain (side) aspect or detail of the subject being addressed. While ''NB'' is also often used in academic writing, ''note'' is a common substitute. The markings used to draw readers' attention in medieval manuscripts are also called marks. The common medieval markings do not, however, include the abbreviation ''NB''. The usual medieval equivalents are anagrams from the four letters in the word , the abbreviation DM from ("worth remembering"), or a symbol of a little hand (☞), called a manicule or index, with the index finger pointing towards the beginning of the significant passage.Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), p. 44. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plagiopholis Nuchalis
''Plagiopholis nuchalis'', commonly known as the Assam mountain snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Asia. Geographic range ''P. nuchalis'' is found in China (Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. It may possibly also be found in India (Assam) and Vietnam. Description A small snake, ''P. nuchalis'' may attain a total length of , which includes a tail long. Dorsally it is blackish brown, with many of the dorsal scales edged with black. On the neck there is a broad black chevron, pointing forward, to which the specific name, ''nuchalis'', refers. Ventrally it is yellowish, marked with black.Smith MA (1943). Reproduction ''P. nuchalis'' is oviparous Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and .... References External linksFlickr ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
