A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication. Its purpose...

Personification Referential density Relevance Rhetorical devices Simile Species description Verisimilitude Crews (1977, p. 13) Crews (1977, p. 13) Morrell (2006)...

name. The description typically provides means for identifying the new species, which may not be based solely on morphology (see cryptic species), differentiating...

model, a description in mathematical language of a system Scientific theory, a description of an aspect of the natural world Species description, a formal...

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction...

number of lists of fictional species: List of fictional extraterrestrials (by media type) Lists of fictional alien species: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I,...

On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle...

the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 5220 (2754 animals, 1 fungus, 2464 plant, 1 protist) endangered species, subspecies and varieties, stocks...

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological...

Hypsiboas fasciatus species complex (Anura, Hylidae) with the description of four new species". ZooKeys (370): 1–68. Bibcode:2014ZooK..370....1C. doi:10...

and excludes others, based on a detailed published description (for example a species description) and on the provision of type material, which is usually...

last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult...

reader who published the name and description for this species; 1758 is the year the name and original description were published (in this case, in the...

Jungle Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. (2008). "The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including...

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving...

Invasive Alien Species is a list of invasive species compiled in 2000 from the Global Invasive Species Database, a database of invasive species around the...

Species is a 1995 American science fiction horror film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dennis Feldman. It stars Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen...

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature...

Foundation. Its aim is to create a comprehensive open content catalogue of all species; the project is directed at scientists, rather than at the general public...

phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, and strain. The "definition" of a taxon is encapsulated by its description or its diagnosis or by both combined...

Version 2014.2 of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 4574 critically endangered species, subspecies, varieties, stocks, and subpopulations...

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is...

endangered species in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An endangered species is a plant or animal species that is near extinction. Endangered Species may also...

for an extensive period of time, even if unofficial descriptions are published. An undescribed species may be referred to with the genus name, followed by...

A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced...

Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus...

A least-concern species is a species that has been evaluated and categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as not being...

known genus. The initial species description was based on a unique chromosome number (2n=32; FNa=42) called a karyotype. The species status has been confirmed...

focusing on cranial, mandibular and dental remains, with the description of a new species (Homo gautengensis sp. nov.)". HOMO. 61 (3): 151–77. doi:10.1016/j...

This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts...