Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ˈkjuːvieɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French...
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Cuvier (1769–1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier may also refer to: Cuvier Island, an island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand Cuvier,...
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Tiger shark (redirect from Galeocerdo cuvier)
The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is...
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Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist...
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Cuvier Grover (July 24, 1828 – June 6, 1885) was a career officer in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
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Cuvier is both a French surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), French zoologist Georges...
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Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae...
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The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. For around...
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Cuvier is a lunar impact crater on the southern part of the Moon's near side. It is attached to the east-southeast rim of the unusually shaped formation...
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Trachinotus marginatus G. Cuvier, 1832 (plata pompano) Trachinotus maxillosus G. Cuvier, 1832 (Guinean pompano) Trachinotus mookalee G. Cuvier, 1832 (Indian pompano)...
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Le Bas-Cuvier is one of the most famous bouldering sites in Fontainebleau. Due to a remarkably good concentration of boulders, wide variety of problems...
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Cuvier Island is a small uninhabited island off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the seaward end of the Colville Channel,...
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Anampses cuvier, the pearl wrasse, is a species of fish found in the Pacific Ocean. This species reaches a length of 31.0 cm (12.2 in). The fish is named...
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Sébastien Cuvier (born 9 September 1970) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward. During a playing career spanning almost 20...
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Sarda (Cuvier, 1832) Australian bonito, S. australis (Macleay, 1881) Sarda chiliensis (Cuvier, 1832) Eastern Pacific bonito, S. c. chiliensis (Cuvier, 1832)...
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Cuvier's dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) is a small crocodilian in the alligator family from northern and central South America. It is found in...
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Cuvier Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Cuvier Island, a small island off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated...
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Wallaby Plateau (redirect from Cuvier Plateau)
is Cuvier Plateau. Cuvier is a historical name that is presumably derived from the adjacent Cape Cuvier. Cape Cuvier was named for Georges Cuvier, zoologist...
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The Cuvier Press Club was a Cincinnati, Ohio social club created in 1911 when the members of the Cuvier Club merged with the members of the Pen and Pencil...
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including William Buckland and Robert Jameson interpreted Cuvier's work differently. Cuvier had written an introduction to a collection of his papers...
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relationships of Herpestidae are shown in the following cladogram: Atilax Cuvier, 1826 †A. mesotes Ewer 1956 Herpestes Illiger, 1811 †H. lemanensis Pomel...
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Cuvier's gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) is a species of gazelle native to Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, and Tunisia. It is also known as the edmi. It is...
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Cuvier Rempart is a bouldering area in the Fontainebleau forest, where its first 8a named C'etait Demain is located. Fontainebleau rock climbing at bleau...
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Megatherium (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
year wherein it caught the attention of the French paleontologist Georges Cuvier, who named the animal in 1796 and was the first to determine, by means of...
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Octopus (genus) (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
synonym of Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 Octopus brevitentaculatus Blainville, 1826: synonym of Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 Octopus brocki Ortmann...
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List of minor planets: 9001–10000 (redirect from 9614 Cuvier)
January 26, 1993 Kitt Peak T. J. Balonek V 2.3 km MPC · JPL 9614 Cuvier 1993 BQ4 Cuvier January 27, 1993 Caussols E. W. Elst · 3.2 km MPC · JPL 9615 Hemerijckx...
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Body plan (section Cuvier, 1817)
zoologists, Linnaeus identified two body plans outside the vertebrates; Cuvier identified three; and Haeckel had four, as well as the Protista with eight...
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(Yellowtail barracuda) Sphyraena forsteri G. Cuvier, 1829 (Bigeye barracuda) Sphyraena guachancho G. Cuvier, 1829 (Guachanche barracuda) Sphyraena helleri...
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Pterodactylus (category Taxa named by Georges Cuvier)
wrist, as is the condition in bats. Cuvier agreed with this interpretation, and at Hermann's suggestion, Cuvier became the first to publish these ideas...
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'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. The term pachyderm...
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