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Torquatus Novellus Atticus
Torquatus, masculine (''torquata'', feminine; ''torquatum'', neuter), is a Latin word meaning "adorned with a neck chain or collar" and may refer to: People *Lucius Manlius Torquatus *Titus Manlius Torquatus (235 BC) *Silanus (other), Silanus **Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus (consul AD 19) **Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus (consul AD 46) **Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus **Decimus Junius Silanus Torquatus *Titus Manlius Torquatus (consul 299 BC) *Titus Manlius Torquatus (347 BC), the first Roman to bear this name after he defeated a powerful Gallic warrior in single combat in 361 BC, claiming the Gaul's torc necklace as spoils. *St. Torquatus of Acci Animals Reptiles *Collared delma (''Delma torquata'') *Night snake (''Hypsiglena torquata'') *Amazon lava lizard (''Tropidurus torquatus'') *Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann, Wiegmann's crevice swift (''Spiny lizard, Sceloporus torquatus'') Birds *Stripe-headed brush-finch (''Arremon torquatus'') *Collared tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collared Titi
The collared titi monkey (''Cheracebus torquatus'') is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to northern Brazil. Taxonomy At the end of the 1980s, the genus ''Callicebus'' was revised from the Hershkovitz concept of three species to thirteen neotropical species, with the collared titi, ''Callicebus torquatus'', having four subspecies. In 2001, Colin Groves elevated one of the subspecies, the Colombian black-handed titi, ''C. t. medemi'', to ''Callicebus medemi'' and a year later Van Roosmalen ''et al.'' elevated the remaining subspecies to species. These last changes were made with few arguments to support the changes and were apparently influenced by the increasing use of the so-called phylogenetic species concept of Cracraft, which seeks to define species as the "smallest diagnosable cluster of individual organisms within which there is a parental pattern of ancestry and descent." The species complex was updated to ''Cheracebus'' in 2016. The recent d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ring Ouzel
The ring ouzel (''Turdus torquatus'') is a mainly European member of the thrush family Turdidae. It is a medium-sized thrush, in length and weighing . The male is predominantly black with a conspicuous white crescent across its breast. Females are browner and duller than males, and young birds may lack the pale chest markings altogether. In all but the northernmost part of its range, this is a high-altitude species, with three subspecies breeding in mountains from Ireland east to Iran. It breeds in open mountain areas with some trees or shrubs, the latter often including juniper and other treeline conifers, rowan, bilberry, heather, and hairy alpenrose. It is a migratory bird, leaving the breeding areas to winter in southern Europe, North Africa and Turkey, typically in mountains with junipers. The typical clutch is 3–6 brown-flecked pale blue or greenish-blue eggs. They are incubated almost entirely by the female, with hatching normally occurring after 13 days. The alt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Stonechat
The African stonechat or common stonechat (''Saxicola torquatus'') is a species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae), inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family (Turdidae), to which the chats are convergent. Its scientific name refer to its appearance and habitat and means "collared rock-dweller": ''Saxicola'' from Latin ("rock") + ' ("one who dwells in a place"), ', Latin for " collared". In the past ''S. torquatus'' usually referred to the entire "common stonechat" superspecies and some sources still keep it that way, but all available evidence strongly supports full species status for the European (''S. rubicola'') and the Siberian stonechat (''S. maurus'') of temperate Eurasia, in addition to the island-endemism, endemics Fuerteventura chat (''S. dacotiae'') and Réunion stonechat (''S. tectes'') which were never unequivocally accepted into ''S. torquatus''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous-winged Antshrike
The rufous-winged antshrike (''Thamnophilus torquatus'') is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 4 March 2024. Species Lists of Birds for South American Countries and Territories. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCCountryLists.htm retrieved March 5, 2024 Taxonomy and systematics The rufous-winged antshrike was described by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1825 and given its current binomial name ''Thamnophilus torquatus''. It and the rufous-capped antshrike (''T. ruficapillus'') are sister species. The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to lump them as a single species. The rufous-winged antshrike is monotypic. Description The rufous-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-collared Bulbul
The black-collared bulbul (''Neolestes torquatus''), or black-collared greenbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Neolestes''. For many years, some authorities considered the genus to belong to the bushshrike or shrike families due to shape and plumage similarities until a review of molecular genetic relationships in 1999 confirmed the behavioral and morphological affinities to Pycnonotidae. The black-collared bulbul is found in equatorial Africa in its natural habitat of dry savanna. Originally misclassified due to its external similarity to bushshrikes (Malaconotidae) or true shrikes (Labiinae, Laniidae), molecular studies in the late 1990s confirmed its rightful place in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). This finding highlighted the importance of genetic data in ornithology, as plumage and body shape alone can be misleading due to convergent evolution—when unrelated species evolve similar traits independently. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collared Redstart
The collared whitestart (''Myioborus torquatus''), also known as the collared redstart, is a tropical New World warbler endemic to the mountains of Costa Rica and western-central Panama. Description The collared whitestart is around in length with a weight of . It has a chestnut crown bordered with black, and a black forehead. The rest of the upper parts are slaty black, and the tail is black with white edges, hence the bird's name: "start" is an old English word for "tail". The face and underparts are bright yellow, with a black band across the breast. The sexes are similar, but young birds are duller, with a browner back, weakly yellow underparts, and the head entirely slate-coloured, with no yellow on the face or red on the crown. Behaviour The call is a sharp ''pit'', and the song is a mixture of slurred whistles, warbles and trills. The collared whitestart feeds on insect Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornate Melidectes
The ornate melidectes or ornate honeyeater (''Melidectes torquatus'') is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is .... References ornate melidectes ornate melidectes ornate melidectes Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Meliphagidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-collared Barbet
The black-collared barbet (''Lybius torquatus'') is a species of bird in the family Lybiidae which is native to sub-Saharan Africa. Indigenous names include ''Rooikophoutkapper'' in Afrikaans, ''isiKhulukhulu'' and ''isiQonQotho'' in Zulu, and ''Isinagogo'' in Xhosa. Range It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa through Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Description The black-collared barbet usually is about 20–25 cm long, plump-looking and has a large head. It also has the heavy bill fringed with bristles that is characteristic of the genus ''Lybius''."Black-collared Barbets." (Lybius Torquatus). N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2013. This barbet has a very obvious bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-tailed Shrike
The white-tailed shrike (''Lanioturdus torquatus'') is a small passerine bird from the family Platysteiridae. It is also known as the chatshrike or ground batis. It occurs only in western Angola and Namibia in thorn scrub. It forages from ground level, where it hops about in large bounds and upright posture, to 25m above ground, scanning for insects. The very short tail, with a small black mark at the tip of the central two feathers, is always carried down, never sticking up. Its range of calls includes loud ringing territorial whistles. This curious bird, which some consider to have close affinities with the batises and others the bushshrikes, was discovered in 1837 by James Edward Alexander in the Naukluft Mountains of Namibia. Waterhouse subsequently described it in 1838, the name ''Lanioturdus'' ('shrike-thrush') reflecting the uncertainty of its classification, and ''torquatus'' denoting 'collared'. The sexes have a similar appearance. It is a common, endemic, breeding res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barred Rail
The barred rail (''Hypotaenidia torquata'') is a species of rail found across the Philippines, Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Salawati (western New Guinea). The species is common, but shy and difficult to see. Its diet includes (but is not limited to) eggs, such as Philippine megapode eggs. See also *Wake Island rail The extinct Wake Island rail or Wake rail (''Hypotaenidia wakensis'') was a flightless rail and the only native land bird on the Pacific atoll of Wake. It was found on the islands of Wake and Wilkes, and Peale, which is separated from the ot ... (an extinct rail of Pacific, that only lived on Wake island) References * A Guide to the birds of the philippines(2000) Robert S. Kennedy pedro C. Gonzales, Edward C, Dickinson Hector C. Miranda, jr. & Timothy H. Fisher External links * * barred rail Birds of the Philippines Birds of Sulawesi Birds of Western New Guinea barred rail Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Gruiform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collared Tuco-tuco
The collared tuco-tuco (''Ctenomys torquatus'') is a tuco-tuco species from South America. It is found in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina, where it lives underground in a burrow it digs in savannah habitats. It is a relatively common species and the IUCN has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern". Description The collared tuco-tuco is a short-tailed rodent with a total length of about , including a tail of . It varies considerably in colour across its range and between different members of the same population. The upper parts can be anything from mahogany brown to yellowish-brown, and the flanks and underparts are yellowish white. Most animals have a paler collar of yellowish-white and many have pale patches in the armpit and groin. The tail is dark brown above and below. Distribution and habitat The collared tuco-tuco is native to southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern Argentina, where it is found in the provinces of Entre Ríos and Corrien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
