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  • These include Galapagos giant tortoise Geochelone nigra (VU), with twenty subspecies on different islands, all of which are endangered, terrestrial iguanas Conolophus subcristatus (VU) and C. pallidus (VU) and marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus (VU) which is the world's only sea-going lizard and feeds on seaweed.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • Within the Iguanidae, the best known of the regions five endemic species are the marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus, VU) and the two threatened species of land iguana endemic to the Galápagos, the Santa Fe land iguana (Conolophus pallidus, VU) and the Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus, VU).

    Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 2008

  • Woodpecker and mangrove finches (Camarhynchus pallidus, C. heliobates) also have notable feeding behaviors; as they feed on insects and larvae if they can not reach one they will find a tool to help remove the desired morsel.

    Galápagos Islands xeric scrub 2007

  • Woodpecker Finch, Camarhynchus pallidus - sometimes separated in Cactospiza

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Endemics include the desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalensis), comb-toed jerboa (Paradipus ctenodactylus), three-toed and five-toed dwarf jerboas (Salpingotus heptneri, S. pallidus).

    Central Asian southern desert 2008

  • Endemic jerboas include the selevinia (Selevinia betpakdalensis), comb-toed jerboa (Paradipus ctenodactylus), and the three-toed and five-toed dwarf jerboas (Salpingotus heptneri, salpingotus pallidus, Cardiocranius).

    Central Asian northern desert 2008

  • The region supports numerous threatened and endangered species – Nevada is third in the nation in listed species – as well as an endemic species of greasewood (Larrea spp.) and an endemic kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops pallidus).

    Great Basin shrub steppe 2007

  • Still, it is also Angelina Jolie's birthday, and the anniversary of Heydrich's assassination, so it isn't all ecce equus pallidus.

    Alastair Campbell's Diaries Out in June 2007

  • Pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) (Photograph by Bat Conservation International)

    California coastal sage and chaparral 2007

  • Hellmayr (1938: 296) recorded _S.t. pallidus_ from Sabinas.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

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