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The Animal Diversity Web is an educational resource written largely by and for college students. ADW doesn't cover all species in the world, nor does it include all the latest scientific information about organisms we describe. Though we edit our accounts for accuracy, we cannot guarantee all...
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site › accounts › information › Gavia_pacifica.html
The Pacific Loon is found along the Western Coast of the United States during the fall and winter, and in Northern Canada and Alaska where they migrate for the breeding months of the spring and summer. Habitat Pacific Loons reside for the most part along the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean and...
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site › accounts › information › Megadermatidae.html
Megadermatids are medium-sized to large bats with a head and body length of 6.5 to 14.0 cm. These "false vampires" or yellow-winged bats are quite distinctive in appearance, with long, erect noseleaves (fleshy protrusion from the nose) and huge ears. Echolocation calls are made through the nose...
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site › accounts › information › Neomys_fodiens.html
Neomys fodiens occurs throughout Eurasia, to western Siberia, northern Asia Minor, the Pacific coast of Siberia, and North Korea. Habitat Found on the banks of both standing or flowing fresh water and adjacent areas. lakes and ponds rivers and streams Physical Description A darkly colored shrew...
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site › accounts › information › Taricha_torosa.html
The California Newt Taricha torosa is one of 5 members of the newt family (Salamandridae) which inhabit California. The California Newt is primarily located on the Coastal Range of California from Humbolt County to the Mexican border....
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site › accounts › information › Balaenopteridae.html
This family includes 6 species placed in 2 genera. It includes minke, Bryde's, sei, fin, humpback, and blue whales. These range in size from the relatively small minke whale, about 8-10 m in length, to the giant blue whale, at 20 - 28 m length and almost 200,000 kg weight. The shape and color of...
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site › accounts › information › Buteo_swainsoni.html
The Swainson's Hawk, -Buteo swainsoni-, spends most of the year in the western United States extending into southwest Canada and south to west Texas. In the winter months, these birds migrate over Central America to the La Pampas region of Argentina (Brown 1996, TPWD 1997). Habitat This hawk...
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site › accounts › information › Eurycea_sosorum.html
Barton Springs of Zilker Park in Austin, Travis County, Texas. E. sosorum is restricted to and only found in two (Parthenia and Eliza) of the four hydrologically connected pools collectively named Barton Springs. E. sosorum is the only...
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site › accounts › information › Hyla_andersonii.html
Hyla andersonii range from southern New Jersey to South Carolina. On a few occaisions, however, they have been seen as far south as the Florida panhandle and as far west as Alabama. (Conant, 1975) Habitat Hyla andersonii reside in pools during part of the year, but when those dry up during the...
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site › accounts › information › Platyhelminthes.html
Flatworms are unsegmented, bilaterally symmetrical worms that lack a coelom (acoelomate) but that do have three germ layers. Some forms are free living but many are parasitic. Flatworms have a cephalized nervous system that consists of head ganglion, usually attached to longitudinal nerve cords...