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Gippsland earthworm colonies are small and isolated, [9] and the species' low reproductive rates and slow maturation make those small populations vulnerable. [9] Their natural habitats are grasslands, and while they can survive beneath pastures, [9] cultivation, heavy cattle grazing and effluent run-off are adversarial to the species. [9]
The genus includes 13 species, widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagadcar: [2]. Strigocossus ambahona (Viette, 1954); Strigocossus crassa (Drury, 1782); Strigocossus capensis (Walker, 1856)
Sundevall's jird is a medium-sized gerbilline rodent with an average mass of about 100 g (3.53 oz). [2] They can range in sizes depending on sex. The average length (not including the tail) is about 15 cm (5.91 in). [3]
The fat spring minnow (Pseudophoxinus crassus) is a species of cyprinid fish. [2] It is endemic to Turkey and inhabits freshwwater rivers and intermittent streams . It is threatened by habitat loss .
M. crassus and M. sphenocerus holotypes. Monoclonius was Edward Drinker Cope's third named ceratopsian, after Agathaumas and Polyonax.Several fossils were found by Cope, assisted by a young Charles Hazelius Sternberg, in the summer of 1876 near the Judith River in Chouteau County, Montana, only about a hundred miles (some 150 km) from the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought that June.
The specific epithet crassisepalus is derived from the Latin words crassus for 'thick' and sepalum for 'sepal' and refers to the thick-fleshed outer perianth segments. Nigel Paul Taylor and Daniela Cristina Zappi (* 1965) placed the species in the genus Cipocereus in 1991. [ 4 ]
Scincosaurus crassus was first described by Bohemian paleontologist Antonín Frič in volume 1875 of "Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Prague", which at that time was the premiere scientific journal of Bohemia (the modern day Czech Republic).
The Crassulaceae (/ ˈ k r æ s j uː l eɪ s iː ˌ iː,-s i ˌ aɪ /, from Latin crassus, thick), also known as the crassulas, the stonecrops or the orpine family, are a diverse family of dicotyledon angiosperms primarily characterized by succulent leaves and a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), in which plants photosynthesize in the daytime and exchange ...