Table of Contents
54 relations: Acropora, Algae, Animal repellent, Aperture (mollusc), Biodiversity, Carl Linnaeus, Childbirth, Common name, Coral, Cowrie, Cypraea, Cypraea pantherina, Cypraeidae, Darning, Dysidea, Gastropod shell, Gastropoda, Gelliodes wilsoni, George Shaw (biologist), Habitat destruction, Haliclona caerulea, Hawaii, Indo-Pacific, Invasive species, Invasive species in Hawaii, Invertebrate, James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist), Johann Friedrich Gmelin, John Edward Gray, Johnston Atoll, Karl Theodor Menke, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Mantle (mollusc), Marine habitat, Mediterranean Sea, Mollusca, Mount Vesuvius, Mycale grandis, Naples, Natural History (Pliny), Ocean, Peter Friedrich Röding, Philippe Dautzenberg, Pliny the Elder, Pompeii, Predation, Sea snail, Sock, Specific name (zoology), ... Expand index (4 more) »
Acropora
Acropora is a genus of small polyp stony coral in the phylum Cnidaria.
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Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Animal repellent
An animal repellent consists of any object or method made with the intention of keeping animals away from personal items as well as food, plants or yourself.
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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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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
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Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
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Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Cowrie
Cowrie or cowry is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails in the family Cypraeidae. Cypraea tigris and Cowrie are Cypraeidae.
Cypraea
Cypraea is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Cypraea tigris and Cypraea are Cypraeidae.
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Cypraea pantherina
Cypraea pantherina, common name the panther cowry, is a species of large tropical sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. Cypraea tigris and Cypraea pantherina are Cypraeidae.
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Cypraeidae
Cypraeidae, commonly named the cowries (cowry), is a taxonomic family of small to large sea snails.
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Darning
Darning is a sewing technique for repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting using needle and thread alone.
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Dysidea
Dysidea is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Dysideidae.
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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
Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda.
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Gelliodes wilsoni
Gelliodes wilsoni, sometimes known as the gray encrusting sponge, is a species of sponge found in shallow water in the Philippines.
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George Shaw (biologist)
George Kearsley Shaw (10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813) was an English botanist and zoologist.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Haliclona caerulea
Haliclona caerulea is a species of marine sponge in the family Chalinidae.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Invasive species in Hawaii
As with a number of other geographically isolated islands, Hawaii has problems with invasive species negatively affecting the natural biodiversity of the islands.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist)
James Cosmo Melvill (1 July 1845 – 4 November 1929) was a British botanist and malacologist who collected plants in Europe and North America.
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll is an unincorporated territory of the United States, under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force (USAF).
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Karl Theodor Menke
Karl Theodor Menke (13 September 1791 – 1861) was a German malacologist and balneologist who was a native of Bremen.
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Lord Howe Island
Lord Howe Island (formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
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Mantle (mollusc)
The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.
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Marine habitat
A marine habitat is a habitat that supports marine life.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
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Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore.
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Mycale grandis
Mycale grandis, the orange keyhole sponge, is a species of marine demosponge in the family Mycalidae.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
Peter Friedrich Röding
Peter Friedrich Röding (17 June 1767 – 8 June 1846) was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg.
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Philippe Dautzenberg
Philippe Dautzenberg (20 December 1849, in Ixelles, Brussels – 9 May 1935, in Paris) was a Belgian malacologist, a biologist who specializes in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
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Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone.
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Sock
A sock is a piece of clothing worn on the feet and often covering the ankle or some part of the calf.
Specific name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).
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Sponge
Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
Also known as Tiger cowrie, Tiger cowry.