fuscus

One beetle, Colymbetes fuscus, produces chemicals that lower blood pressure in mammals.

Dr. Reese Halter: Mother Nature's Medicine Cabinet Dr. Reese Halter 2010

One beetle, Colymbetes fuscus, produces chemicals that lower blood pressure in mammals.

Dr. Reese Halter: Mother Nature's Medicine Cabinet Dr. Reese Halter 2010

However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari.

Simpson desert 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

Several animal species are regarded as being of special value because they are either endemic, nationally threatened or culturally valuable, including Andean condor Vultur gryphus, chestnut canastero Thripophaga steinbachi, sandy gallito Teledroma fuscus, puma Felis concolor, guanaco Lama guanicoe, mara Dolychotus patagonum and viscacha Lagidium viscacia.

Ischigualasto-Talampaya, Argentina 2008

Amphibian species restricted mainly to the Knysna forests include the treefrog (Afrixalus knysnae), the southern ghost frog (Heleophryne regis), and plain rain frog (Breviceps fuscus).

Knysna-Amatole montane forests 2008

In the past there was commercial over-exploitation of the sea cucumbers Isostichopus fuscus and Parastichopus parvimensis, of mother-of-pearl Pinctada mazatlanica and winged oysters Pteria sterna.

Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008

Moorland dominated by buttongrass is inhabited by orange-bellied parrot Neophema chrysogaster (R), ground parrot Pezoporus wallicus (E), and the rare broad-toothed rat Mastacomys fuscus.

Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

The park is also the only protected area within which is found the extremely range-restricted rusty-necked piculet Picumnus fuscus that is known only from seasonally flooded forests along the Iténez River.

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia 2008

They also support many other waterfowl, and extraordinarily high densities of a specialized rodent, the dusky rat (Rattus colletti), and its predator the water python (Liasis fuscus).

Arnhem Land tropical savanna 2008