Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of longicorn beetles, of the family Cerambycidæ, containing about 20 species, confined to Australia and the Malay peninsula.
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Concerning forms of Pygmy Owls, Miller (1955a: 164) remarked that the best distinguishing characters of _G.g. gnoma_ and _californicum_ are tail length and wing length.
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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