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Laelaps Boultoni
Laelaps may refer to: * Laelaps (mythology), a Greek mythological dog * ''Laelaps'' (mite), a mite genus * ''Laelaps'' (dinosaur), or ''Dryptosaurus'', a dinosaur genus * Laelaps Suzuri, a fictional character in the manga series '' Saint Seiya: Meiō Iden – Dark Wing'' {{disambiguation, genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laelaps (mythology)
Laelaps (, '' gen''.: meaning "hurricane" or "furious storm") was a Greek mythological dog that never failed to catch what it was hunting. Mythology In one version of Laelaps' origin story, it was a gift from Zeus to Europa. The hound was passed down to King Minos, who gave it as a reward to the Athenian princess Procris. She obtained it by sleeping with him, after drugging him with a drink from the Circean root, which came from a plant of the milkweed family. In another version of her story, she received the animal as a gift from the goddess Artemis. Procris' husband Cephalus decided to use the hound to hunt the Teumessian fox, a fox that could never be caught. This was a paradox: a dog that always caught its prey versus a fox that could never be caught. The chase went on until Zeus, perplexed by their contradictory fates, turned both to stone and cast them into the stars as the constellations Canis Major (Laelaps) and Canis Minor (the Teumessian fox). See also * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laelaps (mite)
''Laelaps'' is a genus of common parasitic mites in the family Laelapidae. Species, with their hosts, include: *'' Laelaps acuminata'' – ''Oecomys''Furman, 1972, p. 20 *'' Laelaps agilis'' – ''Rattus''Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10 *'' Laelaps alaskensis'' – ''Blarina'', Clethrionomys'', ''Craseomys'', '' Dicrostonyx'', '' Lemmiscus'', '' Lemmus'', ''Microtus'', ''Mustela'', ''Myotis'', ''Napaeozapus'', ''Ochrotomys'', '' Ondatra'', ''Onychomys'', ''Parascalops'', ''Peromyscus'', '' Phenacomys'', ''Poliocitellus'', ''Sorex'', '' Synaptomys'', '' Thomomys''Whitaker and Wilson, 1974, p. 10; Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20 *'' Laelaps boultoni'' – ''Neacomys'', '' Sigmodon'', ''Oligoryzomys'', ''Oecomys'', ''Heteromys'' *'' Laelaps castroi'' – ''Oligoryzomys'' *'' Laelaps clethrionomydis'' – ''Clethrionomys'', ''Craseomys'', ''Microtus'',Whitaker et al., 2007, p. 20 *'' Laelaps conula'' – '' Rhipidomys'' *'' Laelaps crinigera'' – Oryzomyini *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laelaps (dinosaur)
''Dryptosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived on the island continent of Appalachia approximately 67-66 million years ago during the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period. ''Dryptosaurus'' was a large, bipedal, ground-dwelling carnivore that could grow up to long and weigh up to . Although it is now largely unknown outside of academic circles, the 1897 painting of the genus by Charles R. Knight made ''Dryptosaurus'' one of the more widely known dinosaurs of its time, in spite of its poor fossil record. First described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1866 and later renamed by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877, ''Dryptosaurus'' is among the first theropod dinosaurs ever known to science. Discovery and species Up until 1866, theropods from the Americas were only known from isolated teeth discovered by Ferdinand Van Hayden during Geological Survey excursions into Montana. During the summer of 1866, workers from the West Jersey Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
