semperi

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adjective Semper (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Semper's ..."

Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Semper, but especially for German entomologist Georg Semper.

Species in Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines have been reported from lakes, and in fact two species are restricted to lakes: one of these is a sea krait that inhabits Rennell Island in the Solomons, and the other is H. semperi of Lake Taal on Luzon Island.

‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes
Species in Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines have been reported from lakes, and in fact two species are restricted to lakes: one of these is a sea krait that inhabits Rennell Island in the Solomons, and the other is H. semperi of Lake Taal on Luzon Island.

Archive 2006-07-01
It begins with Weidensaul’s search for Semper’s warbler Leucopeza semperi, an enigmatic parulid endemic to St. Lucia, discovered in 1870 and last seen alive in 1969 (although with a trickle of post-1969 sightings, some reliable and some not so reliable).

Archive 2006-03-01