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- adjective
Forster (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Forster's ..."
Etymologies
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Examples
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New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri), sub-Antarctic fur seal (A. tropicalis) and Antarctic fur seal (A. gazella) are found.
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Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) in the Southwest Ross Sea.
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Excluding the outlying Bounty Islands, the largest breeding congregations of New Zealand fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri are found along the South-West coast.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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The islands are home to the rare Hooker's Sealion Phocarctos hookeri (VU) with an estimated population of 12,000-14,000 of which some 95% breed in the Auckland Islands, and the New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri of which the largest breeding sites are in the Bounty Islands (20,000 in 1992).
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The lowland rain forest is divided into five types: Drypetes-Cryptocarya, Cleistocalyx-Chionanthus, mixed broadleaf, Howea forsterana, or H. belmoreana palm forest, and pandan forest (Pandanus forsteri).
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The Catlins Forest Park coastline is the only place where elephant seals (Mirounga leonina), New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) and the New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri VU) all co-exist.
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The Otago Peninsula is a major breeding center for New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri), and is also the northernmost place where vulnerable New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) breed on the mainland.
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There are other amusing anecdotes of Stuart Palmer's life among the Aptenodytes forsteri.
In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864
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The Australian/Queensland lung fish/lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is a unique living fossil.
WN.com - Articles related to Global climate change causing decline in lizard species 2010
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The Australian/Queensland lung fish/lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is
WN.com - Articles related to Global climate change causing decline in lizard species 2010
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