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In 1987 David Bowie released a song "Glass Spider" which would later serve as the name for his Glass Spider Tour. [111] Previously Bowie had a backing band known as The Spiders from Mars who would lend their name to his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. [112] "Spiderwebs" became a hit for No Doubt in 1995.
Scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa. Following rules of Latin grammar , species or subspecies names derived from a man's name often end in -i or -ii if named for an individual, and -orum if ...
Miss Spider Spider Miss Spider: David Kirk: Miss Spider: Spider James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl: Seven flies Fly: The Brave Little Tailor: Traditional. The plot of this famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm is set in motion by the fact that the tailor kills seven flies in one blow. When he brags about this people assume he is talking ...
"The name highlights the 'hardcore' nature of Alviniconcha snails, that inhabit the hottest, most acidic and most sulphidic microhabitats at Indo-Pacific hydrothermal vents. The name also recognizes the surface of Alviniconcha shells: the spiky periostracum resembles the fashion of punk rock bands." [28] Amata gil Witt et al., 2007: Moth: Gil ...
A species native to the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, named "In honour of the unique ranchera singer Chavela Vargas, a native of Heredia, Costa Rica, and naturalized Mexican, like our colleague and friend Julio Magaña, organiser of the collection in Guanacaste, as a technician of INBio, an institution also based in Heredia. A name for the ...
The name refers to the fact that most specimens were collected in cocoa plantations in southern Bahia." [191] Ochyrocera charlotte Brescovit et al, 2018: Spider: Charlotte, Charlotte's Web "The specific name refers to Charlotte, the spider from the classic 'Charlotte's Web' by E.B. White and a great friend of the pig named Wilbur." [113]
Tei Pai Wanka - (Wampanoag) Term for swamp lights in Algonquian lore. Enslaved souls of people taken by the Little People who are used to scare people who've done wrong or lure them to their deaths. Vampire; Wanagi- (Lakota) Lakota name for Siouan shadow people. Essentially ghosts. Wewe Gombel; Wili; Will o' the wisp – Jack o lantern (English ...
Spiders have developed several different respiratory anatomies, based on book lungs, a tracheal system, or both. Mygalomorph and Mesothelae spiders have two pairs of book lungs filled with haemolymph, where openings on the ventral surface of the abdomen allow air to enter and diffuse oxygen .