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74 relations: Abalone, Accreditation, Animal, Aperture (mollusc), Apex predator, Aragonite, Ashtray, Barnacle, Basionym, Benthic zone, Bladder cancer, Caenogastropoda, Calcite, Cape Horn, Carnivore, Central Chile, Chanco cheese, Chile, Chilean cuisine, Chilean Spanish, Chupe, Climate change, Concholepas, Delicacy, Dioecy, Earthenware, Egg, El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Family (biology), Fertilisation, Gastropod shell, Gastropoda, Genetic variability, Haliotis, Hemocyanin, Herbivore, Hypsogastropoda, Internal fertilization, Intertidal zone, Invertebrate, Jean Guillaume Bruguière, Juan Fernández Islands, Larva, List of marine molluscs of Chile, Mapuche language, Mayonnaise, Mollusca, Mouse, Muricidae, Muricoidea, ..., Mytilidae, Neogastropoda, Neoplasm, Ocean, Operculum (gastropod), Overfishing, Peru, Peruvian Ribereño Spanish, Phrygian cap, Pleistocene, Predation, Prostate cancer, Proxy (climate), Rapaninae, Scuba diving, Sea snail, Sea surface temperature, Selective breeding, Sexual dimorphism, Sexual maturity, Subspecies, Valparaíso Region, Veliger, Whorl (mollusc). Expand index (24 more) »
Abalone
Abalone (or; via Spanish abulón, from Rumsen aulón) is a common name for any of a group of small to very large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.
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Accreditation
Accreditation is the process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Aperture (mollusc)
The aperture is an opening in certain kinds of mollusc shells: it is the main opening of the shell, where the head-foot part of the body of the animal emerges for locomotion, feeding, etc.
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Apex predator
An apex predator, also known as an alpha predator or top predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, with no natural predators.
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Aragonite
Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the two most common, naturally occurring, crystal forms of calcium carbonate, CaCO3 (the other forms being the minerals calcite and vaterite).
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Ashtray
An ashtray is a receptacle for ash from cigarettes and cigars.
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Barnacle
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters.
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Basionym
In the scientific name of organisms, basionym or basyonym means the original name on which a new name is based.
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Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
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Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is any of several types of cancer arising from the tissues of the urinary bladder.
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Caenogastropoda
Caenogastropoda (from Ancient Greek caeno- meaning "recent") is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.
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Carnivore
A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.
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Central Chile
Central Chile (Zona central) is one of the three natural regions into which CORFO divided continental Chile in 1950.
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Chanco cheese
Chanco is Chilean cow's milk cheese originally from the Chanco farm in Maule Region.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Chilean cuisine
Chilean gastronomy stems mainly from the combination of traditional Spanish cuisine, Chilean Indigenous Mapuche culture and local ingredients, with later important influences from other European cuisines, particularly from Germany, Italy and France.
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Chilean Spanish
Chilean Spanish (español chileno, español de Chile or castellano de Chile) is any of several varieties of Spanish spoken in most of Chile.
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Chupe
Chupe is a generic term used in South America to a variety of stew generally made with chicken, red meat, lamb or beef tripe and other offal, or with fish, shrimp, crayfish or shellfish such as loco, and vegetables, potatoes or yuca.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Concholepas
Concholepas is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.
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Delicacy
A delicacy is usually a rare or expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated or peculiarly distinctive, within a given culture.
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Dioecy
Dioecy (Greek: διοικία "two households"; adjective form: dioecious) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.
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Earthenware
Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below 1200°C.
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Egg
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own; at which point the animal hatches.
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El Niño–Southern Oscillation
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregularly periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, affecting climate of much of the tropics and subtropics.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fertilisation
Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, conception, fecundation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to initiate the development of a new individual organism.
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Gastropod shell
The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc.
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Gastropoda
The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.
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Genetic variability
Genetic variability is either the presence of, or the generation of, genetic differences.
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Haliotis
Haliotis, common name abalone (US), pāua (NZ), or ormer (UK), is the only genus in the family Haliotidae.
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Hemocyanin
Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins and abbreviated Hc) are proteins that transport oxygen throughout the bodies of some invertebrate animals.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Hypsogastropoda
Hypsogastropoda is a clade containing marine gastropods within the clade Caenogastropoda.
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Internal fertilization
Internal fertilization is the union of an egg cell with a sperm during sexual reproduction inside the body of a parent.
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Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore and seashore and sometimes referred to as the littoral zone, is the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide (in other words, the area between tide marks).
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Jean Guillaume Bruguière
Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.
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Juan Fernández Islands
The Juan Fernández Islands (Archipiélago Juan Fernández) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
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List of marine molluscs of Chile
This list of marine molluscs of Chile is a partial list of marine mollusc species which have been recorded in Chile.
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Mapuche language
Mapuche or Mapudungun (from mapu 'land' and dungun 'speak, speech') is a language isolate spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche people (from mapu 'land' and che 'people').
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Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise (also), informally mayo, is a thick cold sauce or dressing usually used in sandwiches and composed salads.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
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Mouse
A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
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Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails.
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Muricoidea
Muricoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
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Mytilidae
The Mytilidae are a family of small to large saltwater mussels, marine bivalve mollusks in the order Mytiloida.
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Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda is a clade of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
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Neoplasm
Neoplasia is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, (plural: opercula or operculums) is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure like a trapdoor which exists in many (but not all) groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails.
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Overfishing
Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish from a body of water at a rate that the species cannot replenish in time, resulting in those species either becoming depleted or very underpopulated in that given area.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Peruvian Ribereño Spanish
Peruvian Ribereño Spanish or Peruvian Coastal Spanish is the form of the Spanish language spoken in the coastal region of Peru.
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Phrygian cap
The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including Phrygia, Dacia, and the Balkans.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.
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Proxy (climate)
In the study of past climates ("paleoclimatology"), climate proxies are preserved physical characteristics of the past that stand in for direct meteorological measurements and enable scientists to reconstruct the climatic conditions over a longer fraction of the Earth's history.
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Rapaninae
Rapaninae is a subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.
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Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in saltwater, in other words marine gastropods.
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Sea surface temperature
Sea surface temperature (SST) is the water temperature close to the ocean's surface.
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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Sexual maturity
Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Valparaíso Region
The Valparaíso Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
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Veliger
A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, as well as most bivalve molluscs (clams) and tusk shells.
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Whorl (mollusc)
A whorl is a single, complete 360° revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concholepas_concholepas
