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- adjective
Harris (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Harris's ..."
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Tasmanian devilSarcophilus harrisii is endangered in the wild, due to a highly lethal contagious cancer.
PHOTOS: Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction The Huffington Post 2011
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The Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii is endangered in the wild, due to a...
PHOTOS: Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction The Huffington Post 2011
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Now the race is on to save another unique Tasmanian - the Devil Sarcophilis harrisii.
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Overriding of the molt-inducing stimulus of multiple limb autotomy in the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii by parasitization with a rhizocephalan.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Overriding of the molt-inducing stimulus of multiple limb autotomy in the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii by parasitization with a rhizocephalan.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Overriding of the molt-inducing stimulus of multiple limb autotomy in the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii by parasitization with a rhizocephalan.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Four of these are endemic to Tasmania including Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisii, the world's largest extant carnivorous marsupial.
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Both the thylacine and the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) were once widespread on mainland Australia, but were eliminated before the arrival of Europeans, presumably through competition with the dingo (Canis lupus dingo), which has never been introduced to Tasmania.
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The Tasmanian devil (Sacrophilus harrisii) is widespread throughout all of Tasmania, and the extinct Tasmanian thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) once ranged throughout Tasmania as well, in low densities.
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Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), Tasmania, Australia.
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