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Robert Robertson (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia): Sexual dimorphism in the marine gastropod Tricolia variabilis complex.
Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009
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Days have been getting longer and at least one of theorchidsis responding – the Maxillaria variabilis.
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Days have been getting longer and at least one of theorchidsis responding – the Maxillaria variabilis.
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Robert Robertson Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: Sexual dimorphism in the marine gastropod Tricolia variabilis complex.
Bootleg transactions of the 11th MAM meeting AYDIN 2009
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Olsen has noted (pers.comm. cited in Koler-Matznick 2002) that the referral of C.l. variabilis to C. lupus was never satisfactory, and given the features mentioned here it is conceivable that this dog-like form was not really a wolf, but either a separate species ancestral to the domestic dog, or an early representative of C. familiaris.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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What might be a domestic dog prototype is known from strata extending back to 200,000-500,000 years however, and this is the extinct Chinese canid named C.l. variabilis Pei, 1934.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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Above the cliffs the mountain top is covered with Leptospermum, Prostanthera scrub, with an unusual low forest (10 m) of Rapanea variabilis carrying a dense cover of epiphytic bryophytes.
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Olsen has noted (pers.comm. cited in Koler-Matznick 2002) that the referral of C.l. variabilis to C. lupus was never satisfactory, and given the features mentioned here it is conceivable that this dog-like form was not really a wolf, but either a separate species ancestral to the domestic dog, or an early representative of C. familiaris.
Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006
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Natural vegetation of the Shandong Peninsula includes forests dominated by the deciduous oaks, Quercus acutissima and Q. variabilis, with other tree species including elm (Ulmus spp.), pistachio (Pistacia chinensis), and the conifer (Pinus tabulaeformis).
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What might be a domestic dog prototype is known from strata extending back to 200,000-500,000 years however, and this is the extinct Chinese canid named C.l. variabilis Pei, 1934.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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