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The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenidae.
The list consists of those species found in the nations or overseas territories of continental South America (including their island possessions, such as the Galápagos), as well as in Trinidad and Tobago and the Falkland Islands; Panama is not included. As of May 2012, the list contains 1,331 species, 340 genera, 62 families and 15 orders.
Paca Fischer, 1814. Stictomys Thomas, 1924. A paca (from Tupí paka[4]) is a member of the genus Cuniculus of ground-dwelling, herbivorous rodents in South and Central America. It is the only genus in the family Cuniculidae. [5] Pacas are large rodents with dots and stripes on their sides, short ears, and barely visible tails.
Genus Ziphius – Cuvier's beaked whale. Genus Tasmacetus – Shepherd's beaked whale. Subfamily Hyperoodontinae. Genus Hyperoodon – bottlenose whales. Genus Indopacetus – Longman's beaked whale. Genus Mesoplodon – mesoplodont beaked whales. Superfamily Platanistoidea. Family Platanistidae – South Asian river dolphins.
Popular choices for egg consumption are chicken, duck, quail, roe, and caviar, but the egg most often consumed by humans is the chicken egg, by a wide margin. List of egg dishes. List of egg topics. Fried eggs. A batch of tea eggs with shell still on soaking in a brew of spices and tea, an example of edible eggs.
Uruguayan cuisine is a fusion of cuisines from several European countries, especially of Mediterranean foods from Spain, Italy, Portugal and France. Other influences on the cuisine resulted from immigration from countries such as Germany and Scotland. Uruguayan gastronomy is a result of immigration, rather than local Amerindian cuisine, because ...
Lists of mammals by region cover mammals found in different parts of the world. They are organized by continent, region, and country, and in some places by sub-national region. Most are full species lists, while those for Australia and the Caribbean have links to more specific species lists.
Food pyramid (nutrition) Appearance. The USDA 's original food pyramid, from 1992 to 2005 [ 1 ] A food pyramid is a representation of the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups. [ 2 ] The first pyramid was published in Sweden in 1974. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] The 1992 pyramid introduced by the United States ...