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  • Six exotic species of fish have been introduced, including brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis, lake trout S. namycush, brown trout Salmo trutta, rainbow trout Oncorhyncus mykiss and lakechub Couecius plumbeus.

    Yellowstone National Park, United States 2009

  • For example, increasing the number of cyprinids that consume plankton (e.g., emerald shiner – Notropis atherinoides, lake chub – Couesius plumbeus) in northern waters will possibly divert energy from existing planktivores (e.g., ciscoes) and reduce their population abundances.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • Take the discovery of the obscure Ethiopian mouse Nilopegamys plumbeus, collected in 1927 by a field assistant of Wilfred H. Osgood on a tributary of the Blue Nile in north-eastern Ethiopia.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • S Acebuches showed some resemblance to _V.s. plumbeus_.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

  • Figure 159 shows the common Tomocerus plumbeus greatly enlarged (Fig. 160, seen from above), and as the mouth-parts of the whole group of Poduras are remarkably constant, a description of one genus will suffice for all.

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

  • During this time they occasionally moulted, and Tomocerus plumbeus, after shedding its skin, ate it within

    Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

  • I know not why, but that grave and downcast aspect, enlivened only by a few occasional flashes of ponderous clerical wit, the atmosphere depressing as the _plumbeus auster_ of

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Between the two areas there are at least 60 restricted range species including the Chocó tinamou (VU) (Crypturellus kerriae), Baudó oropendola (EN) (Psarocolius cassini), viridian dacnis (Dacnis viguieri), crested ant-tanager (Habia cristata), Lita woodpecker (Piculus litea), and plumbeous forest-falcon (EN) (Micrastur plumbeus) just to name a few.

    Chocó-Darién moist forests 2007

  • Rare birds of this ecoregion includethe following: Blue-bellied parrot (Triclaria malachitacea), white-bearded antshrike (Biatas nigropectus), plumbeous antvireo (Dysithamnus plumbeus), Rio de Janeiro antwren (Myrmotherula fluminensis), gray-winged cotinga (Tijuca condita), kinglet cotinga (Calyptura cristata), Kaempfer's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus kaempferi), and cherry-throated tanager (Nemosia rourei).

    Serra do Mar coastal forests 2008

  • Foliaceus, late expanfus, ecortice parum elevatus, rugofus margine undulatus; madidus faturate virens, fubtus puUus; ficcus plumbeus.

    Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

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