Fulvous is a

colour Color (or colour in Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorp ...

, sometimes described as dull orange,

brown Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing and painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors Orange (colour), orange and black. In the ...

ish-yellow or tawny; it can also be likened to a variation of buff,

beige Beige ( ) is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither ble ...

butterscotch Butterscotch is a type of confection whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter. Some recipes include corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt. The earliest known recipes, in mid-19th century Yorkshire, used treacle (molasses) in plac ...

. As an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance. It is also used as in

mycology Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, genetics, biochemistry, biochemical properties, and ethnomycology, use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, Edible ...

to describe fungi with greater colour specificity, specifically the pigmentation of the surface cuticle, the broken flesh and the spores en masse. The first recorded use of ''fulvous'' as a colour name in English was in the year 1664. Fulvous in English is derived from the Latin "fulvus", a term that can be recognised in the scientific binomials of several species, and can provide a clue to their colouration.

Birds

* Fulvous babbler *

Fulvous owl The fulvous owl (''Strix fulvescens''), or Guatemala barred owl, is a resident of the cloud forests of Central America. A medium-sized true owl, it has a round head, lacking ear tufts. Its typical coloration is warm dark brown or reddish brown on ...

Fulvous parrotbill The fulvous parrotbill (''Suthora fulvifrons'') is a species of parrotbill in the family Paradoxornithidae. The species is also known as the fulvous-fronted parrotbill, the fulvous-fronted suthora, and the fulvous-fronted crowtit. The species, al ...

Fulvous shrike-tanager The fulvous shrike-tanager (''Lanio fulvus'') is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropica ...

Fulvous whistling duck The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck (''Dendrocygna bicolor'') is a species of whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern United States, sub-Sahar ...

Fulvous wren The fulvous wren (''Cinnycerthia fulva'') is a species of bird in the family Troglodytidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Taxonomy and systematics The fulvous wren was formerly considered a subspecies of ''Cinnycerthia peruana'', which at ...

* Fulvous-bellied antpitta *

Fulvous-breasted flatbill The fulvous-breasted flatbill (''Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus'') is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, ...

* Fulvous-breasted woodpecker * Fulvous-chested jungle-flycatcher *

Fulvous-chinned nunlet The fulvous-chinned nunlet (''Nonnula sclateri'') is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Bucconidae, the puffbirds, nunlets, and nunbirds. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Clar ...

* Fulvous-crested tanager * Fulvous-dotted treerunner * Fulvous-headed brush-finch * Fulvous-headed tanager * Fulvous-vented euphonia * Eurasian griffon vulture (''Gyps fulvus'') * Pacific golden plover (''Pluvialis fulva'') * Ashy woodpecker (''Mulleripicus fulvus'') *

Cave swallow The cave swallow (''Petrochelidon fulva'') is a medium-sized, squarish-tailed swallow belonging to the same genus as the more familiar and widespread cliff swallow of North America. The cave swallow, also native to the Americas, nests and roost ...

(''Petrochelidon fulva'')

Reptiles

* Highland garter snake (''Thamnophis fulvus'')

Mammals

* Fulvous harvest mouse * Fulvous pygmy rice rat * Fulvous-bellied climbing rat *

Fulvus roundleaf bat The fulvus roundleaf bat or fulvus leaf-nosed bat (''Hipposideros fulvus'') is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Taxonomy The fulvus roundleaf b ...

Common brown lemur The common brown lemur (''Eulemur fulvus'') is a species of lemur in the family Lemuridae. It is found in Madagascar and has been introduced to Mayotte. Taxonomy Five additional currently recognized species of lemur were until 2001 considered s ...

(''Eulemur fulvus'') * Yellow ground squirrel (''Spermophilus fulvus'') *

Coyote The coyote (''Canis latrans''), also known as the American jackal, prairie wolf, or brush wolf, is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the Wolf, gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the c ...

(''Canis latrans'')

Fish

* ''

Cephalopholis fulva ''Cephalopholis fulva'', the coney or the butterfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It is found in the wester ...

'', coney or butterfish * '' Starksia fulva'', yellow blenny

Invertebrates

* Fulvous dawnfly * Fulvous forest skimmer * '' Dorylus fulvus'', a West African ant * '' Technomyrmex fulvus'', a Central American ant * '' Nylanderia fulva'', a South American ant * '' Paratrechina fulva'', a South American ant * '' Aphaenogaster fulva'', a

nearctic The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...

American ant * '' Smicronyx fulvus'', a sunflower seed

weevil Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small – less than in length – and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several fa ...

* '' Tigriopus fulvus'', a marine

copepod Copepods (; meaning 'oar-feet') are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (living in the water column), some are benthos, benthic (living on the sedimen ...

* '' Menemerus fulvus'', a Japanese

jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

* '' Megahexura fulva'', the tawny dwarf tarantula * '' Euconulus fulvus'', a New Zealand land snail * '' Rhagonycha fulva'', the common red soldier beetle * '' Libellula fulva'', the scarce chaser; a British dragon fly * '' Aplysina fulva'', a scattered pore rope sponge

Fungi

* '' Fomes fulvus'', a North American conk * '' Amanita fulva'' * '' Mycovellosiella fulva'', a plant pathogen * '' Byssochlamys fulva'', a plant pathogen * ''

Cladosporium fulvum ''Passalora fulva'' is a fungus, fungal plant pathogen that causes tomato leaf mold. References External links USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases Tomato diseases Mycosphaerellaceae Fungi described in 2003 F ...

'', a plant pathogen * '' Xanthoria fulva'', a lichen

Prokaryotes

* '' Myxococcus fulvus'' * '' Pseudomonas fulva''

Plants

* '' Plagiobothrys fulvus'', fulvous popcorn flower * '' Chrysopogon fulvus'', red false beardgrass * '' Hemerocallis fulva'', tawny daylily * '' Iris fulva'', copper iris * ''

Polyscias fulva ''Polyscias fulva'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It fo ...

'' a West African parasol tree * '' Ulmus fulva'',

slippery elm ''Ulmus rubra'', the slippery elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America. Other common names include red elm, gray elm, soft elm, moose elm, and Indian elm. Description ''Ulmus rubra'' is a medium-sized deciduous tree with a spr ...

* '' Quercus fulva'', an endemic Mexican oak * '' Utricularia fulva'', an Australian carnivorous plant * '' Livistona fulva'', a palm having fronds with golden undersides * '' Madhuca fulva'', a threatened tree endemic to

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

* '' Arachnorchis fulva'', the tawny spider-orchid * ''

Arctophila fulva ''Dupontia fulva'', commonly known as pendant grass, is a species of grass native to arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America (northern Russia, Finland, Sweden, Svalbard, Greenland, Alaska, and Canada),Animal colouration *

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