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Monocentropus balfouri is a tarantula in the Monocentropus genus.It was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. The species is also called Socotra Island blue baboon tarantula, usually shortened to blue baboon tarantula.
Monocentropus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. [2] As of March 2020 it contains three species, found on Madagascar and in Yemen: M. balfouri, M. lambertoni, and M. longimanus.
There are many endemic invertebrates, including several spiders (such as the Socotra Island Blue Baboon tarantula, Monocentropus balfouri) and three species of freshwater crabs in the Potamidae (Socotra pseudocardisoma and two species in Socotrapotamon). [29] As with many isolated island systems, bats are the only mammals native to
Socotra (/ s ə ˈ k oʊ t r ə, s oʊ-, ˈ s ɒ k ə t r ə /; Arabic: سُقُطْرَىٰ Suquṭrā) or Saqatri (Soqotri: ساقطْري Saqaṭri) is an island in the Indian Ocean part of Yemen. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Lying between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea and near major shipping routes, Socotra is the largest of the six islands in ...
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The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).
Abd al Kuri (Arabic: عبد الكوري) is a rocky island in the Guardafui Channel. [4] As a part of the Socotra Archipelago Governorate of Yemen, [3] [2] it lies about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of the main island of Socotra. [2] Its terrain primarily consists of granite and diorite covered with limestone. [5]
Azuragrion granti, the Socotra bluet or Grant's bluet, is a species of narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is endemic to Socotra in the Indian Ocean. It is a member of the narrow-winged damselfly family Coenagrionidae with its closest relatives originating in Africa, for example Azuragrion nigridorsum .