The genus Nestor is one of the two extant genera of the parrot family Strigopidae. Together with the kākāpō, and the extinct parrots in the genus Nelepsittacus...
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mythology Nestor (genus), a genus of parrots NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope NESTOR (encryption)...
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Kākā (redirect from Nestor meridionalis)
now placed in the genus Nestor that was introduced in 1830 by René Lesson. There are two subspecies, the North Island kākā, Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis...
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Kea (redirect from Nestor notabilis)
word "kea" is both singular and plural. The genus Nestor contains four species: the New Zealand kākā (Nestor meridionalis), the kea (N. notabilis), the...
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Chatham kākā (redirect from Nestor chathamensis)
skins or descriptions are available. The Chatham kākā is assigned to the genus Nestor in the family Nestoridae, a small group of parrot species native to New...
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Norfolk kākā (redirect from Nestor productus)
The Norfolk kākā (Nestor productus) is an extinct species of large parrot, belonging to the parrot family Nestoridae. The birds were about 38 cm long,...
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was first described in 1897 as Loranthus nestor by Spencer Le Marchant Moore, but was transferred to the genus, Amyema, in 1929 by Benedictus Hubertus...
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least three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, the fossil Nelepsittacus, and probably the fossil Heracles. The genus Nestor consists of the kea, kākā, Norfolk...
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Nelepsittacus is a genus of extinct New Zealand parrots that is closely related to the genus Nestor (the living kaka and kea). It consists of four species...
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Anthochitina is an extinct genus of chitinozoans. It was described by Nestor in 1994. It contains a single species, Anthochitina primula. Anthochitina...
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Heracles inexpectatus (redirect from Heracles (genus))
Strigopoidea, which consists of three confirmed primitive genera of parrots: Nestor (Kea and Kākā), Strigops (Kākāpō) and the fossil Nelepsittacus. It may have...
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Ara (bird) (redirect from Ara (genus))
Ara is a Neotropical genus of macaws with eight extant species and at least two extinct species. The genus name was coined by French naturalist Bernard...
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the University of Belgrade, announced that a new species of beetle in the genus Duvalius recently discovered near the town of Ljubovija, Serbia, had been...
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should be divided into six families. The New Zealand parrots in the genus Nestor were placed in a separate family Nestoridae and the two basal genera...
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Agamemnon and Nestor. Diomedes, Nestor and Odysseus were some of the greatest Achaean strategists. Throughout the Iliad, Diomedes and Nestor are frequently...
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Polystomurum is a Devonian genus from Siberia, Russia (then the Soviet Union). It was initially described by Nestor Novojilov in 1958 as a eurypterid with...
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Cingulochitina is an extinct genus of chitinozoans. It was described by Paris in 1981. Cingulochitina baltica Nestor, 1994 Cingulochitina bouniensis Verniers...
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Antilochus was the son of Nestor, king of Pylos, in Greek mythology. Antilochus may also refer to: Antilochus (bug), a genus of true bug in the family...
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or /ˌpɪtəˈspɔːrəm, -toʊ-/) is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae. The genus is probably Gondwanan in origin;...
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theosophian Pekka Ervast, historian of religions Uno Harva and the linguist Eemil Nestor Setälä in the early 20th century. According to the archaeologist Elena Kuz'mina...
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Strigopidae together with the two species in the genus Nestor, the kea (Nestor notabilis) and the kākā (Nestor meridionalis). The birds are endemic to New...
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2012-06-26 – via YouTube. Disease in Fiction: Its Place in Current Literature Nestor Tirard, 1886. Vital Signs Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction...
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from Greek méga (μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene...
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Western purple-faced langur (redirect from Trachypithecus vetulus nestor)
The western purple-faced langur (Semnopithecus vetulus nestor), also known as the north lowland wetzone purple-faced langur, is a subspecies of purple-faced...
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1 lb), averaging about 7.08 kg (15.6 lb). The smallest subspecies (S. v. nestor) commonly weighs between 3.8 and 6 kg (8.4 and 13.2 lb). Average weight...
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Genetics. 15 (3): 165–181. doi:10.1136/jmg.15.3.165. PMC 1013674. PMID 353283. Nestor, Karl (2009). "Parthenogenesis in turkeys". The Tremendous Turkey. oardc...
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extinct genus of chitinozoans. It was described by Fritz H. Cramer in 1964. Plectochitina magna (Nestor, 1982) Plectochitina nodifera (Nestor, 1980) Plectochitina...
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The species was previously placed in the genus Chen, but is now typically included in the "gray goose" genus Anser. Snow geese breed north of the timberline...
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arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle) Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021 Brachiacantha barberi Gordon,...
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placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), but it and other members of its genus are now classified as belonging to the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The...
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