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- adjective
Thomas (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Thomas's ..."
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Examples
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Also, I had a very nice view of Aeromys thomasi up on a tree about two weeks ago while doing some night survey work.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007
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To help convince people, Meijaard et al. (2006) have provided two paintings of the Kayan Mentarang animal, this time ‘reconstructed’ using A. thomasi to fill in the gaps.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007
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To help convince people, Meijaard et al. (2006) have provided two paintings of the Kayan Mentarang animal, this time ‘reconstructed’ using A. thomasi to fill in the gaps.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Of course none of this demonstrates that the Kayan Mentarang animal really is a ground-walking specimen of A. thomasi, and not an unknown species.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007
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As has been noted by both John Lynch and Loren Coleman, of incidental interest in this story is that the squirrel A. thomasi was described by Sir Charles Hose (1863-1929) in 1900*, while the civet D. hosei was described by Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929) in 1892.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Of course none of this demonstrates that the Kayan Mentarang animal really is a ground-walking specimen of A. thomasi, and not an unknown species.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Comparisons of the features seen in the photos with morphological features of 17 similar-looking species from the region suggest that the animal is not a new species of carnivore, as had been widely speculated, but is most likely a rarely seen species of flying squirrel, probably Aeromys thomasi.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Ten species are reported from Guadeloupe of which Eptesicus guadeloupensis and Sturnira thomasi are island-endemics.
Guadeloupe 2009
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Of the 13 morphological characters available for comparison, A. thomasi matches the Kayan Mentarang animal in 12 of them (the 13th character – orientation of the tail when on the ground – remains uncertain in A. thomasi).
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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As has been noted by both John Lynch and Loren Coleman, of incidental interest in this story is that the squirrel A. thomasi was described by Sir Charles Hose (1863-1929) in 1900*, while the civet D. hosei was described by Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858-1929) in 1892.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007
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