List of articles in "Species" category - Page 1459

Ixodes holocyclus commonly known as the Australian paralysis tick is one of about 75 species of Australian tick fauna and is considered the most medically important. It can cause paralysis […]

Phyllocladus aspleniifolius (Celery-top pine) is an endemic gymnosperm of Tasmania Australia. It is found in rainforest as a dominant in eucalypt forest as an understorey species and occurs occasionally as […]

Andreaeaceae is a family of mosses which includes two genera Andreaea containing about 100 species and the genus Acroschisma. The Andreaeaceae prefer rocky habitats ranging from tropical to arctic climates […]

Microsorum is a genus of over fifty species of tropical ferns. Like most ferns they grow from rhizomes rather than roots. The genus name is often misspelled Microsorium or Microsoreum. […]

Fattail scorpion or fat-tailed scorpion is the common name given to scorpions of the genus Androctonus one of the most dangerous groups of scorpions species in the world. They are […]

Juniperus recurva commonly named theDrooping Juniper is a juniper native to the Himalaya from northern Pakistan east to western Yunnan in southwestern China. It grows at 3000-4000 m altitude.

Zev (1920-1943) was an American thoroughbred horse racing Champion and National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame inductee.

Nephropoidea is a superfamily of decapod crustaceans. It contains the true lobsters in the Nephropidae (including the rare thaumastochelid lobsters) and three fossil families: Chilenophoberidae Protastacidae and Stenochiridae. Their closest […]

Opilio is a genus of harvestmen with more than sixty known recent species.

The potato onion (also known as multiplier onion) is a variety of the ‘Aggregatum group’ of Allium cepa similar to the shallot although producing larger bulbs. It is remarkably easy […]