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site › accounts › information › Insectivora.html
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria. chemical uses smells or other chemicals to communicate...
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site › accounts › information › Merostomata.html
(horseshoe crabs, eurypterids) The Merostomata includes two rather different groups of marine organisms, the eurypterids and the horseshoe crabs. Eurypterids are now extinct; they lived 200 to 500 million years ago. Some were huge, reaching a length of 3 m. Their morphology suggests that they fed...
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site › accounts › information › Ophiuroidea.html
Two thousand species have been species identified in Subclass Ophiuroidea. All are marine, as are all echinoderms. They are found in all seas, at all latitudes, and from the intertidal to the abyssal zone (to a depth of 6,000 meters)....
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site › accounts › information › Procyonidae.html
Procyonidaecoatis, raccoons, and relatives(Also: cacomistle, coatis, raccoons, and relatives) By Phil Myers The raccoon family includes 18 species in 6 genera. We follow Wilson and Reeder (1993) in placing red pandas, Ailurus, in the Ursidae rather than in this family. Thus restricted, the...
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site › accounts › information › Eurycea_nana.html
The San Marcos Salamander is endemic to the source of the San Marcos River in Hays County, Texas. Distribution for Eurycea nana is extremely limited, with populations being found in ranges of only several hundred feet along this river within close proximity to San Marcos Spring. (Mitchell, 1990)...
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site › accounts › information › Monodontidae.html
The two species of this family are found at high latitudes in the arctic seas and in most of the major rivers draining into them, south to the Saint Lawrence River. These are medium-sized whales, ranging from 4 - 6 m in length and up to...
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site › accounts › information › Fossa_fossana.html
The Malagasy Civet or Striped Civet (Fossa fossana) is native to and located throughout Madagascar only. Habitat Fossa fossana is found throughout most of Madagascar, from humid lowland forests to dryer higher elevations. Physical Description Fossa fossana has a body length between 40 and 45 cm...
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site › accounts › information › Lycaon_pictus.html
At one time the distribution of Lycaon pictus was throughout the non-forested and non-desert areas of Africa. Their current distribution is more fragmented. African hunting dogs are now found in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, parts of...
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site › accounts › information › Macroscelidea.html
Once considered a divergent family of the order Afrosoricida, elephant-shrews are now placed in their own order, the Macroscelidea. Recent evidence suggests that they may belong to a clade of African mammals, the Afrotheria, which also...
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site › accounts › information › Sula_nebouxii.html
The blue-footed booby breeds on several arid islands off the western coasts of tropical America, Mexico, and northern South America. Habitat The blue-footed booby inhabits arid islands in the Pacific ocean. Physical Description The...