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  • adjective Beccari (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Beccari's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for Italian naturalist Odoardo Beccari.

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Examples

  • The mangroves are rich in salt marsh plants and epiphytes, the latter including the ant plant Myrmecodia beccarii.

    Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

  • Examples of endemic mosses to the park include Stereodontopsis flagellifera, Coryphopteria andersonii, Hypnodendron beccarii and H. vitiense.

    Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia 2008

  • Examples of such species include Gesneriaceae such as Monophyllae beccarii, M. horsfieldii and Cytandra spp.

    Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia 2008

  • Thirty-five restricted-range bird species are found in this ecoregion and include two threatened species that are also endemic to this ecoregion: the Sumatran cochoa (Cochoa beccarii) and Sumatran ground-cuckoo (Carpococcyx viridis).

    Sumatran montane rain forests 2008

  • Ammonia beccarii that extended all the way up to AD 2006; and when operating upon these data with a well-established palaeotemperature equation, the two scientists created a concomitant history of bottom-water temperatures that revealed the occurrence of a distinctive warm period between about AD 940 and 1050, during which time the peak warmth attained was approximately 0. 3°C less than the peak warmth of the Current Warm Period.

    New Content on CO2 Science 2010

  • Clockwise from top left: Ammonia beccarii, Elphidium excavatum clavatum, Buccella frigida, and Eggerella advena.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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