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It was a pregnant female Mesobuthus gibbosus anatolicus, only species of yellow-brown, moderately venomous scorpion in West Anatolia and Aegean islands.
Ümit and his scorpion AYDIN 2006
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Like E. gibbosus, it does best when grafted on to another kind.
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The treatment recommended for E. gibbosus will be found suitable for this.
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Much larger than the E. gibbosus, of a dirty brown, glossed, and wide margin of elytra flat, the extreme edge somewhat turned up, the sides of the elytra at base are somewhat straight, but the edge soon gradually gets rounded off towards tip.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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This animal has all the external appearance and character, as far as they are given in Messieurs Dumeril and Bibron's work, of the Breviceps gibbosus of the Cape of Good Hope, except that it has not the yellow dorsal band, and the back is scarcely to be designated as granular.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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I found the unio alatus, overtus, rugosus and gibbosus, also some anadontas.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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I found the _unio alatus, overtus, rugosus and gibbosus_, also some
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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Offshore, at least ten species of whales occur: blue Balaenoptera musculus (EN), fin B. physalis (EN), sei B. borealis (EN), black right Eubalaena glacialis japonica (EN), humpback Megaptera novaeangliae (VU), bowhead Balaena mysticetus, minke Balaenoptera acutorostrata, grey Eschrichtius gibbosus, Stejneger's beaked whale Mesoplodon stejnegeri and Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris.
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The gibbosus is generally a dark purple or chocolate, but varies from this through all the intermediate shades to perfect white.
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* The young gibbosus is sometimes very obscurely rayed.
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