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  • The same pattern pops up a number of times in harvestmen - Caddo agilis, Caddo pepperella and (if I recall correctly) Crosbycus dasycnemus are all individual species that each show this kind of distribution (mind you, they're also all mostly parthenogens, so morphological conservatism may be hiding genetic diversity).

    What do philomycid slugs and poison ivy have in common? AYDIN 2009

  • The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) occurs only north of Lake Toba, and the dark-handed gibbon (Hylobates agilis) is found to the south.

    Sumatran montane rain forests 2008

  • Other than the mountain pygmy possum, only four other small mammals are known to inhabit the alpine and subalpine areas of the Alps: the broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus), the bush rat (Rattus fuscipes), the dusky antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii), and the agile antechinus (A. agilis).

    Australian Alps montane grasslands 2008

  • Among the reptiles are isolated populations of four species: toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus versocolor, multicellated racerunner Eremias multiocellata, Gobi racerunner Eremias przewalskii and patterned grass-snake Elapha dione; also the locally rare adder Vipera berus, moccasin snake Aghistrodon halys, Tlafe agilis and sand lizard Lacerta agilis.

    Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008

  • The white-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar) occurs only north of Lake Toba, and the dark-handed gibbon (Hylobates agilis) is found only to the south.

    Sumatran lowland rain forests 2008

  • Among reptiles, ecoregion is represented by common lizards (Lacerta agilis) and vipers (Vipera ursini); amphibians include toads (Bufo viridis) and frogs (Rana arvalis).

    Kazakh steppe 2008

  • In some of the Dorset records it is noted that the lizards were nearly 300 mm long, for example, which is way too big for L. agilis.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • In comparison crowned guenon (Cercopithecus pogonias EN), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, EN), agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis), and gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) occur only on the right bank.

    Eastern Congolian swamp forests 2007

  • The Gibbons appear to be naturally very gentle, but there is very good evidence that they will bite severely when irritated — a female ‘Hylobates agilis’ having so severely lacerated one man with her long canines, that he died; while she had injured others so much that, by way of precaution, these formidable teeth had been filed down; but, if threatened, she would still turn on her keeper.

    Essays 2007

  • Mr. Martin (l.c. p. 430) has given so excellent and graphic an account of the movements of a ‘Hylobates agilis’, living in the Zoological Gardens, in 1840, that I will quote it in full:

    Essays 2007

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