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  • adjective biology Rich in species.

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  • Jerry Harasewych (National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.): An overview of the Internet database for the speciose land snail genus Cerion.

    Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Considering that the Mollusca is the 2nd most speciose phylum, after the Arthropoda, one would think that there would be proportionately more information about them on the Information Highway.

    Where are all the malacologists? AYDIN 2009

  • Considering that the Mollusca is the 2nd most speciose phylum, after the Arthropoda, one would think that there would be proportionately more information about them on the Information Highway.

    Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009

  • So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia.

    Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution. docbrite 2009

  • Many other non-endemic genera are highly speciose; the frog genus Eleutherodactylus has more than 330 species, of which more than 250 are restricted to the hotspot.

    Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes 2009

  • An overview of the Internet database for the speciose land snail genus Cerion.

    Bootleg transactions of the 11th MAM meeting AYDIN 2009

  • These are replaced with highly speciose oak (Quercus and Lithocarpus spp.) and chestnut (Castanopsis spp.) forests.

    Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests 2008

  • Lichens and algae are also speciose components of the epiphyte community.

    Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests 2008

  • There are also 58 endemic plant genera, and, while some are remarkably speciose (like Niligrianthus, which has 20 species), nearly three-quarters of the endemic genera have only a single species.

    Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 2008

  • Two cacti genera, Coryphanta and Opuntia, are among the five most speciose in the entire flora.

    Chihuahuan desert 2008

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