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  • The caption reads: Limax nudus cinereus maculis albicantibus.

    Beasts and Bestiaries: a book about how they used to illustrate animals AYDIN 2009

  • The native mammalian fauna includes six species: Galápagos fur seal Arctocephalus galapogoensis (VU), Galápagos sea lion Zalophus californianus wollebacki (VU), rice rat Oryzomys galapagoensis (VU) on Santa Fé, and on Fernandina, a rice rat Nesoryzomys indefessus (VU), hairytailed bat Lasiurus brachyotis and hoary bat L. cinereus.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • The caption reads: Limax nudus cinereus maculis albicantibus.

    Archive 2009-09-01 AYDIN 2009

  • One sure sign of spring around here is the eastern red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) that I start seeing under the litter in the woods.

    Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.

    Marajó varzea 2008

  • One sure sign of spring around here is the eastern red-backed salamanders Plethodon cinereus that I start seeing under the litter in the woods.

    Spring has arrived; the salamander says so AYDIN 2009

  • Two bat species Lasiurus brachyotis and L. cinereus also have made it to the islands, and they are not endemic.

    Galápagos Islands xeric scrub 2007

  • The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).

    Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia 2009

  • Except for one bat species, the Hawaiian hoary bat Lasiurus cinereus semotus (I), native mammalian species are absent.

    Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, United States 2009

  • A new subspecies of douc langur, Pygathrix nemaeus cinereus ssp. nov.

    Biological diversity in Indo-Burma 2008

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