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unusual facts about Linnaeus's two-toed sloth


Linnaeus's two-toed sloth

The two-toed sloth's main enemies are man, large birds of prey such as the harpy and crested eagles, and wild cats such as the ocelot and jaguar.


12th edition of Systema Naturae

For example, Linnaeus had included 700 species of mollusc in the 10th edition, and added a further 100 species for the 12th edition.

1832 in birding and ornithology

Johann Georg Wagler moves the Northern Bald Ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)

Acraea serena

Aurivillius (1898) considers that manjaca Boisduval is a variety of Fabricius' serena which had, in turn, been put in synonymy with terpsicore Linnaeus by Butler (1894), and which then was thought to be eponina Cramer (Le Doux, 1928, Carcasson, 1961).

Akram Monfared Arya

In July 2007, she was invited to Jokkmokk and Kvikkjokk along with seven other artists for the celebration of Linnaeus' 300-year anniversary.

Alpha taxonomy

Thus the common buttercup is Ranunculus acris L., where the 'L' is the standardised abbreviation for Linnaeus.

Anders Celsius

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

Bolinus brandaris

Bolinus brandaris (originally called Murex brandaris by Linnaeus), and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, an edible marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails.

Buddleja

The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), a botanist and rector in Essex, England, at the suggestion of Dr. William Houstoun.

Chinese rhubarb

Rheum palmatum Linnaeus 1759, also known as Turkey rhubarb, East Indian rhubarb, or palmate rhubarb

Cliidae

This family name has for a long time been known as Clioidae, or the subfamily Clioinae Jeffreys, 1869 belonging to the family Cavoliniidae, each time with the type genus Clio Linnaeus, 1767.

Cnephasia

Curtis simply repeated the mistake of A.H. Haworth, who had in his 1811 volume of Lepidoptera Britannica discussed a Cnephasia under Clerck's name, but the original misidentification may well go back to Linnaeus' treatment of "T. logiana" in Systema naturae.

Codium

Codium bursa, (Linnaeus) C.Agardh; has been found in Mulroy Bay in County Donegal in 1977 (specimen in the Ulster Museum) and 1988.

Cognitive hearing science

Cognitive hearing science has been introduced by researchers at the Linköping University research centre Linnaeus Centre HEAD (HEaring And Deafness) in Sweden, created in 2008 with a major 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council.

Crataegus laevigata

and in 1946 Dandy showed that Linnaeus had actually observed a different plant, and this would be C. oxyacantha.

Critica Botanica

The terms genus and species acquired their specialized biological usage from Linnaeus's predecessors, in particular Ray and Tournefort.

Cylindrus

Cylindrus Fitzinger, 1833, is homonymous with the cone snail genus Cylindrus Batsch, 1789, an alternate representation of Conus Linnaeus, 1758.

Dark-finger coral crab

Carpilius maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758), also known as the seven-eleven crab and spotted reef crab

David de Gorter

Later, Linnaeus named the plant genus Gorteria after David de Gorter and his father, the physician Johannes de Gorter.

Depressaria

In this he followed such entomologists of his time as A.J. Retzius, who in 1783 had believed the Parsnip Moth to be a species originally described by C. Linnaeus in 1758.

Ficus americana

Both Aublet and Linnaeus published descriptions of this species in 1775, basing them on an illustration of Charles Plumier's published posthumously in Plantarum americanarum, quas olim Carolus Plumierus detexit(Amsterdam, 1755–1760).

Gagea spathacea

In 1806, criticizing the fact that Linnaeus imposed himself as a law to base its genera only on fruits, Richard Anthony Salisbury peak the need to take account of inflorescences.

George Linnaeus Banks

George was born in Birmingham, the son of a seedsman familiar with the plant nomenclature of Linnaeus.

Iridaceae

Its name derives from the Greek goddess, Iris, who carried messages from Olympus to earth along a rainbow, whose colours were seen by Linnaeus in the multi-hued petals of many of the species.

Jane Colden

One of her descriptions of a new plant, which she herself called Fibraurea, was forwarded to Linnaeus with the suggestion that he should call it Coldenella, but Linnaeus refused and called it Helleborus (now Coptis groenlandica).

Johannes Browallius

This plant was named Browallia (Species Plantarum 2: 631. 1753 1 May 1753; Genera Plantarum ed. 5, 1754) by the famous plant taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in honour of his fellow countryman and botanical colleague.

Leea

The genus was named by Linnaeus after James Lee, the Scottish nurseryman based in Hammersmith, London who introduced many new plant discoveries to England at the end of the 18th century.

Linnaeus N. Hines

Linnaeus Hines became the president of Indiana State University at Terre Haute and its Eastern Division at Muncie on October 1, 1921.

Linnaeus Neal Hines (February 12, 1871 – July 14, 1936) is best known as being a former president of Indiana State University and its Eastern Division, later known as Ball State University.

Linnéa

Linnaeus' family name in turn is derived from the Swedish word "Lind", the linden (lime tree).

Linnean Tercentenary Medal

The front of the medal features an illustration by Linnaeus of Andromeda (mythology) next to one of the plant he named Andromeda, from his 1732 expedition to Lapland and on the back, a spiral design made from illustrations taken from Systema Naturae.

Megabalanus

Surprisingly, the specific name tintinnabulum does not refer to The Adventures of Tintin character Captain Haddock, whose catchphrase was "Blistering barnacles"; it was designated by 18th century taxonomist Linnaeus and refers to the animal's shape — a tintinnabulum is a handbell .

Men, Microscopes, and Living Things

Shippen traces the history of biological thought beginning with Aristotle and followed by Pliny, Linnaeus, Cuvier, Lamarck, Darwin, and several others.

Morten Thrane Brünnich

Brünnich corresponded with many foreign naturalists including Linnaeus, Peter Simon Pallas and Thomas Pennant.

Rudbeckia

The name was given by Carolus Linnaeus in honor of his teacher at Uppsala University, Professor Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660-1740), and his father, Professor Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630-1702), both of whom were botanists.

Scientocracy

Florence Caddy (1837–1923) wrote a book titled Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history. That book was published in two volumes in 1887.

Suberites ficus

Linnaeus in 1767, Esper in 1794 and Lamarck in 1814 also used the name but it was not until Johnston described the spicules as well as the sponge which he named Halichondria ficus in 1842 that it became clear what sponge was being described.

Subgenus

In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea (Cypraea) tigris Linnaeus, which belongs to the subgenus Cypraea of the genus Cypraea.

Swedish Museum of Natural History

One of the keepers of the collections of the Academy during its earlier history was Anders Sparrman, a student of Linnaeus and participant in the voyages of Captain James Cook.

Tafl games

Around 1960, Milton Bradley published Swords and Shields, which was essentially Tablut as recorded by Linnaeus, but with the Swedes transformed into shields (with a king shield) and the Muscovites transformed into swords.

Uncaria

Uncaria was named in 1789 by Johann von Schreber in his Genera Plantarum edition 8a (not to be confused with books of the same title by Linnaeus, Jussieu, and others).


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