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Lytorhynchus Gasperetti
''Lytorhynchus'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Geographic range Species of the genus ''Lytorhynchus'' are found from North Africa, eastward through the Middle East, to Pakistan and western India. Species Seven species are recognized as being valid. * '' Lytorhynchus diadema'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – awl-headed snake, crowned leafnose snake, diademed sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus gaddi'' Nikolsky, 1907 * '' Lytorhynchus gasperetti'' Leviton, 1977 – Leviton's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus kennedyi'' Schmidt, 1939 – Kennedy's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus maynardi'' Alcock & Finn, 1897 – Maynard's longnose sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus paradoxus'' ( Günther, 1875) – Sindh awl-headed snake * '' Lytorhynchus ridgewayi'' Boulenger, 1887 – Derafshi snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytorhynchus Paradoxus
''Lytorhynchus paradoxus'', commonly known as the Sindh awl-headed snake and the Sind longnose sand snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to the desert areas of Pakistan and India (Rajasthan). Description The snout of ''L. paradoxus'' is long and acutely pointed. The rostral has a lateral cleft. The suture between the internasals is shorter than that between the prefrontals and shorter than the upper part of the rostral. The frontal is nearly as long as its distance from the end of the snout, as long as the parietals. The supraocular is narrow. There are three preoculars and two postoculars. The temporals are arranged 2+2 or 2+3. There are 8 upper labials, the fifth entering the eye. There are 4 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin shields. The anterior chin shields are shorter but much broader than the posterior chin shields. The dorsal scales are in 19 rows at midbody. The ventrals are slightly angulate laterally, and nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytorhynchus Gasperetti
''Lytorhynchus'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Geographic range Species of the genus ''Lytorhynchus'' are found from North Africa, eastward through the Middle East, to Pakistan and western India. Species Seven species are recognized as being valid. * '' Lytorhynchus diadema'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – awl-headed snake, crowned leafnose snake, diademed sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus gaddi'' Nikolsky, 1907 * '' Lytorhynchus gasperetti'' Leviton, 1977 – Leviton's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus kennedyi'' Schmidt, 1939 – Kennedy's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus maynardi'' Alcock & Finn, 1897 – Maynard's longnose sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus paradoxus'' ( Günther, 1875) – Sindh awl-headed snake * '' Lytorhynchus ridgewayi'' Boulenger, 1887 – Derafshi snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Arthur Smith
Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875 in New Malden, Surrey – 1958 in Ascot) was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula. Early life Smith was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age. After completing a degree in medicine and surgery in London in 1898, he left for the then Kingdom of Siam (today Thailand) as a doctor to the British Embassy in Bangkok. In 1921, he married Eryl Glynne of Bangor, who as well as being medically trained, made significant collections of ferns from Thailand and later worked at RBG Kew. She was killed in a car crash near Bangkok in 1930. The couple had three children including the mountaineer Cymryd "Cym" Smith, also killed in a road accident. Eryl was the elder sister of the mountaineer and plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne. Work Smith went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a close confidant and a doctor to the royal family. He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binomial Nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages. Such a name is called a binomial name (often shortened to just "binomial"), a binomen, name, or a scientific name; more informally, it is also called a Latin name. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the system is also called nomenclature, with an "n" before the "al" in "binominal", which is a typographic error, meaning "two-name naming system". The first part of the name – the '' generic name'' – identifies the genus to which the species belongs, whereas the second part – the specific name or specific epithet – distinguishes the species within the genus. For example, modern humans belong to the genus ''Homo'' and within this genus to the species ''Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nota Bene
( ; plural: ) is the Latin language, Latin phrase meaning ''note well''. In manuscripts, ''nota bene'' is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of ''nota bene'' and ''notate bene'' first appeared in the English writing style, English style of writing around the year 1711. In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of ''NB'' is common to the legal writing, legal style of writing of documents to direct the reader's attention to a thematically relevant aspect of the subject that qualifies the matter being litigated, whereas in academic writing, the editorial abbreviation ''n.b.'' is a casual synonym for ''footnote''. In medieval manuscripts, the editorial marks used to draw the reader's attention to a supporting text also are called marks; however, the catalogue of medieval editorial marks does not include the NB abbreviation. The medieval equivalents to the n.b.-mark are anagrams derived from the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum in London. Boulenger develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytorhynchus Ridgewayi
''Lytorhynchus'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Geographic range Species of the genus ''Lytorhynchus'' are found from North Africa, eastward through the Middle East, to Pakistan and western India. Species Seven species are recognized as being valid. * '' Lytorhynchus diadema'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – awl-headed snake, crowned leafnose snake, diademed sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus gaddi'' Nikolsky, 1907 * '' Lytorhynchus gasperetti'' Leviton, 1977 – Leviton's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus kennedyi'' Schmidt, 1939 – Kennedy's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus maynardi'' Alcock & Finn, 1897 – Maynard's longnose sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus paradoxus'' ( Günther, 1875) – Sindh awl-headed snake * '' Lytorhynchus ridgewayi'' Boulenger, 1887 – Derafshi snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia ( Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''" (On the pupal state of ''Distoma''). He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Finn
Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 – 1 October 1932) was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the '' Avicultural Magazine'' in 1909–10. Finn was a prolific author, his works including ''Garden and Aviary Birds of India'', ''How to Know the Indian Ducks'' (1901), ''The Birds of Calcutta'' (1901), ''How to Know the Indian Waders'' (1906), ''Ornithological and other Oddities'' (1907), ''The Making of Species'' (1909, with Douglas Dewar), ''Eggs and Nests of British Birds'' (1910) and ''Indian Sporting Birds'' (1915). He also edited Robert A. Sterndale's book on the mammals of India and Ceylon and brought out a new and abridged edition titled ''Sterndale's Mamma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred William Alcock
Alfred William Alcock (23 June 1859 in Bombay – 24 March 1933 in Belvedere, Kent) was a British physician, naturalist, and carcinologist. Early life and education Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath. His mother was a daughter of Christopher Puddicombe, the only son of a Devon squire. Alcock studied at Mill Hill School, at Blackheath Proprietary School and at Westminster School. In 1876 his father faced financial losses and he was taken out of school and sent to India in the Wynaad district. Here he was taken care of by relatives engaged in coffee-planting. As a boy of 17 he spent time in the jungles of Malabar. Career Coffee-planting in Wynaad declined and Alcock obtained a post at a commission agent's office in Calcutta. This office closed soon, and he worked from 1878 to 1880 in Purulia as an agent recruiting unskilled labourers for the Assam tea gardens. While here an acquaintance, Duncan Cameron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lytorhynchus Maynardi
''Lytorhynchus'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae. Geographic range Species of the genus ''Lytorhynchus'' are found from North Africa, eastward through the Middle East, to Pakistan and western India. Species Seven species are recognized as being valid. * '' Lytorhynchus diadema'' (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – awl-headed snake, crowned leafnose snake, diademed sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus gaddi'' Nikolsky, 1907 * '' Lytorhynchus gasperetti'' Leviton, 1977 – Leviton's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus kennedyi'' Schmidt, 1939 – Kennedy's leafnose snake * '' Lytorhynchus maynardi'' Alcock & Finn, 1897 – Maynard's longnose sand snake * '' Lytorhynchus paradoxus'' ( Günther, 1875) – Sindh awl-headed snake * '' Lytorhynchus ridgewayi'' Boulenger, 1887 – Derafshi snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
