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Wildlife Of Madagascar
The composition of Madagascar's wildlife reflects the fact that the island has been isolated for about 88 million years. The prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana separated the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. Madagascar later split from India about 88 million years ago, allowing plants and animals on the island to evolve in relative isolation. As a result of the island's long isolation from neighboring continents, Madagascar is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. Approximately 90 percent of all plant and animal species found in Madagascar are endemic, including the lemurs (a type of strepsirrhine primate), the carnivorous fossa and many birds. This distinctive ecology has led some ecologists to refer to Madagascar as the "eighth continent", and the island has been classified by Conservation International as a biodiversity hotspot. As recent as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maki
Maki may refer to: People *Mäki, a Finnish surname (includes a list of people with the name) *Maki (name), a Japanese given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) Places *Maki, Ravar, Kerman Province, Iran *Maki, Rigan, Kerman Province, Iran *Maki, Razavi Khorasan, Iran *Maki, Niigata (Nishikanbara), a former town in Niigata Prefecture, Japan *Maki, Niigata (Higashikubiki), a former village in Niigata Prefecture, Japan *Mąki, Poland Political parties *Maki (political party), the Communist Party of Israel *Maki (historical political party), the original Communist Party of Israel Food *Maki roll or makizushi, a style of sushi wrapped in dried seaweed *Norimaki, a class of Japanese foods wrapped in dried seaweed *Maki mi (or maki soup), a Chinese-Filipino pork tenderloin soup Other uses *Maki Engineering, a Grand Prix racing constructor * , the name of several ships *Ring-tailed lemur, or maky/maki, a primate See also * *Makki (other) Makki may r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lemur Species
Lemurs are Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhine primates, all species of which are Endemism, endemic to Madagascar. They include the smallest primate in the world, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs , and range up to the size of the indri, which can weigh as much as . However, recently extinct species grew much larger. As of 2010, five Family (biology), families, 15 Genus, genera, and 101 species and subspecies of lemur were formally recognized. From 2000 through 2008, 39 new species were described and nine other taxa resurrected. By 2014, the number of species plus subspecies recognized had increased to 113; of the 105 species then known, the IUCN classified 24 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brookesia Micra
''Brookesia micra'', also known as the Nosy Hara leaf chameleon is a species of chameleons from the islet of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar. At the time of its discovery, it was the smallest known chameleon and among the smallest reptiles, until the 2021 discovery of the even smaller '' B. nana''. Adult ''B. micra'' can grow up to in length. Taxonomy ''Brookesia micra'' was discovered and named by a team of researchers led by Frank Glaw of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology. Glaw and his colleagues have been conducting expeditions into the Malagasy forests for eight years. Members of the species had previously been labelled as ''Brookesia'' sp. "Nosy Hara" in 2007 by Glaw and Vences. Etymology The specific epithet of ''B. micra'' is a derivation of the Latin form of the Greek word "μικρός" (''mikros''), which means either "tiny" or "small" and refers to the small body size. Description The males of ''Brookesia micra'' reach a maximum snout-vent length of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', the '' Current Opinion'' series, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal tool for measuring research performance, the ClinicalKey search engine for clinicians, and the ClinicalPath evidence-based cancer care service. Elsevier's products and services also include digital tools for data management, instruction, research analytics and assessment. Elsevier is part of the RELX Group (known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier), a publicly traded company. According to RELX reports, in 2021 Elsevier published more than 600,000 articles annually in over 2,700 journals; as of 2018 its archives contained over 17 million documents and 40,000 e-books, with over one billion annual downloads. Researchers have criticized Elsevier for its high profit marg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene (journal)
''Gene'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in genetics and molecular biology, focusing on the cloning, structure, function, as well as the biomedical and biotechnological importance of genes. It was established in 1976 and is published by Elsevier. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ... of 3.688. Beyond Gene, there are several sub-specialty journals linked to Gene including Meta Gene, Plant Gene, Agri Gene and Gene Reports. References External links * Genetics journals Elsevier academic journals Publications established in 1976 English-language journals {{genetics-journal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chameleon
Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, being capable of shifting to different hues and degrees of brightness. The large number of species in the family exhibit considerable variability in their capacity to change color. For some, it is more of a shift of brightness (shades of brown); for others, a plethora of color-combinations (reds, yellows, greens, blues) can be seen. Chameleons are distinguished by their zygodactylous feet, their prehensile tail, their laterally compressed bodies, their head casques, their projectile tongues, their swaying gait, and crests or horns on their brow and snout. Chameleons' eyes are independently mobile, and because of this there are two separate, individual images that the brain is analyzing of the chameleon’s environment. When hunting prey, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reptile
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians (tuatara). As of March 2022, the Reptile Database includes about 11,700 species. In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are considered a separate class to reptiles. However, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other living reptiles, and so modern cladistic classification systems include birds within Reptilia, redefining the term as a clade. Other cladistic definitions abandon the term reptile altogether in favor of the clade Sauropsida, which refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals. The study of the traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. The earliest known proto-reptiles originated around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fossa (animal)
The fossa (''Cryptoprocta ferox''; or ; ) is a slender, long-tailed, cat-like mammal that is endemic to Madagascar. It is a member of Eupleridae, the family of carnivorans, and closely related to the Malagasy civet. The fossa is the largest mammalian carnivore on Madagascar and has been compared to a small cougar, as it has convergently evolved many cat-like features. Adults have a head-body length of and weigh between , with the males larger than the females. It has semi-retractable claws (meaning it can extend but not retract its claws fully) and flexible ankles that allow it to climb up and down trees head-first, and also support jumping from tree to tree. A larger relative of the species, ''Cryptoprocta spelea'', probably became extinct before 1400. The species is widespread, although population densities are usually low. It is found solely in forested habitat, and actively hunts both by day and night. Over 50% of its diet consists of lemurs, the endemic primates found o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primate
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including humans). Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted to living in the trees of tropical forests: many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment, including large brains, visual acuity, color vision, a shoulder girdle allowing a large degree of movement in the shoulder joint, and dextrous hands. Primates range in size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs , to the eastern gorilla, weighing over . There are 376–524 species of living primates, depending on which classification is used. New primate species continue to be discovered: over 25 species were described in the 2000s, 36 in the 2010s, and three in the 2020s. Primates have large bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkey
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms ''monkeys'' and ''simians'' synonyms in regards to their scope. In 1812, Geoffroy grouped the apes and the Cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", ("''singes de l'Ancien Monde''" in French). The extant sister of the Catarrhini in the monkey ("singes") group is the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys). Some nine million years before the divergence between the Cercopithecidae and the apes, the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South America likely by ocean. Apes are thus deep in the tree of extant and extinct monkeys, and any of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Non-marine Molluscs Of Madagascar
The non-marine molluscs of Madagascar are a part of the molluscan fauna of Madagascar (wildlife of Madagascar). In tropical rainforests of Madagascar, there is high diversity of species of terrestrial gastropods and many species has low population density, so many of them are "extremely rare". About 50% of land snails in Madagascar are related to land snails in Africa. Freshwater gastropods Pachychilidae the genus '' Madagasikara'' is endemic to Madagascar, 5 species * ''Madagasikara spinosa'' (Lamarck, 1822) – the previously used name ''Melanatria fluminea'' being not valid, endemic * ''Madagasikara madagascariensis'' (Grateloup, 1840) – endemic * ''Madagasikara johnsoni'' (E. A. Smith, 1882) – endemic * ''Madagasikara vivipara'' Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2010 – endemic * ''Madagasikara zazavavindrano'' Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2010 – endemic * ''Madagasikara vazimba'' Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2010 – endemic Planorbidae – there are 4 species of ''Bulinus:. * '' Bulinu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Spiders Of Madagascar
This is a list of spider species that occur on Madagascar. Unless otherwise noted, they are endemic (they occur nowhere else). Some cosmopolitan or pantropical species that occur also in Madagascar may be missing. Araneidae * '' Acantharachne giltayi'' Lessert, 1938 — also Congo * ''Acantharachne madecassa'' Emerit, 2000 * ''Acantharachne milloti'' Emerit, 2000 * ''Acrosomoides acrosomoides'' (O. P.-Cambridge, 1879) * '' Arachnura scorpionoides'' Vinson, 1863 — also Congo, Ethiopia, Mauritius * ''Araneus isabella'' (Vinson, 1863) * ''Araneus kraepelini'' (Lenz, 1891) * ''Araneus lenzi'' (Roewer, 1942) * ''Araneus madagascaricus'' (Strand, 1908) * ''Araneus margitae'' (Strand, 1917) * ''Araneus nossibeus'' (Strand, 1907) * ''Araneus pallescens'' (Lenz, 1891) * ''Araneus saccalava'' (Strand, 1907) * ''Araneus sambava'' (Strand, 1907) * '' Argiope coquereli'' (Vinson, 1863) — also Zanzibar * ''Argiope ranomafanensis'' Bjørn, 1997 * '' Augusta glyphica'' (Guérin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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