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Megascolides Laffani
''Megascolides'' is a genus of earthworms in the family Megascolecidae. Species There are about 40 species: References Further reading Giant Gippsland earthwormat the Museum Victoria website * Rossiter, RJ; Gaffney, TJ; Rosenberg, H; Ennor, AH (1960)"The formation in vivo of lombricine in the earthworm (''Megascolides cameroni'')" ''The Biochemical Journal''. 76 (3): 603–10. . . . Megascolecidae Annelid genera Taxa named by Frederick McCoy {{annelid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy (1817 – 13 May 1899), was an Irish palaeontologist, zoologist, and museum administrator, active in Australia. He is noted for founding the Botanic Garden of the University of Melbourne in 1856. Early life McCoy was the son of Simon McCoy and was born in Dublin; some sources have his year of birth as 1823, however 1817 is the most likely. He was educated in Dublin and at Cambridge for the medical profession. Palaeontology career McCoy's interests, however, became early centred in natural history and, especially, palaeontology. At the age of eighteen he published a ''Catalogue of Organic Remains compiled from specimens exhibited in the Rotunda at Dublin'' (1841). He assisted Sir RJ Griffith by studying the fossils of the carboniferous and silurian rocks of Ireland, resulting in two publication: ''A Synopsis of the Character of Carboniferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland'' (1844) and ''Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland'' (1846). In 1846 Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megascolides Laffani
''Megascolides'' is a genus of earthworms in the family Megascolecidae. Species There are about 40 species: References Further reading Giant Gippsland earthwormat the Museum Victoria website * Rossiter, RJ; Gaffney, TJ; Rosenberg, H; Ennor, AH (1960)"The formation in vivo of lombricine in the earthworm (''Megascolides cameroni'')" ''The Biochemical Journal''. 76 (3): 603–10. . . . Megascolecidae Annelid genera Taxa named by Frederick McCoy {{annelid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
