costata

Researchers have discovered a new species of living giant clam, Tridacna costata, in the Red Sea.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

Grasses include large tussocks of Festuca costata and Danthonia davyi interspersed with cushions of Eragrostis volkensii and the extraordinary grass Alloeochaete oreogena, a Mulanje endemic up to 3 m tall with a tree trunk-like structure.

South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

The sole representative of which (J. costata) is endemic to this ecoregion.

Jamaican dry forests 2008

Dipterocarps are a major component of the forest structure and form emergent tree canopies with such species as Dipterocarpus alatus, D. costatus, Hopea odorata, Shorea guiso, S. hypochra, and Anisoptera costata.

Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests 2008

At lower altitudes, some of the vegetation resembles fynbos, where grass elements are dominated by Bromus speciosus, Festuca costata, Pentaschistis tysonii and Themeda triandra.

Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands 2007

I found this Vallonia costata crawling on a rock in my backyard last weekend.

Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007

The dipterocarps include Anisoptera costata, Hopea celebica, H. gregaria, Shorea assamica, Vatica rassak, and V. flavovirens.

Sulawesi lowland rain forests 2007

Note added 10 January 2008: Earlier this week Jochen Gerber of the Field Museum in Chicago contacted me by e-mail to let me know that he didn't think that this snail was Vallonia costata.

Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007

Other dipterocarps once formed the dominant canopy elements of a tall evergreen forest in coastal area, with Shorea hypochra, Anisoptera costata, Dipterocarpus costatus, and Hopea odorata all abundant.

Cardamom Mountains rain forests 2007

Weinmannia parviflora and Alstonia costata are the dominant tree species, but Cyathea spp. tree ferns, Fitchia spp.,

Society Islands tropical moist forests 2007