"oak (""Quercus robur""), sallow (""Salix cinerea""), elder (""Sambucus nigra""), elm (""Ulmus"" spp.) and medlar (""Mespilus germanica""). Among notable introduced species, the cabbage palm (""Cordyline australis"") has been planted in coastal areas and may be seen in many gardens. Notable marine species include the ormer, conger, bass, undulate ray, grey mullet, ballan wrasse and garfish. Marine mammals include the bottlenosed dolphin and grey seal. Historically the island has given its name to a variety of overly-large cabbage, the Jersey cabbage, also known as Jersey kale or cow cabbage. Japanese Knotweed ""Fallopia japonica"" is an invasive species that threatens Jersey's biodiversity. It"
"Bottlenose dolphin Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. Molecular studies show the genus contains three species: the common bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops truncatus""), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops aduncus""), and the Burrunan dolphin (""Tursiops australis""). Bottlenose dolphins inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide, being found everywhere except for the Arctic and Antarctic Circle regions. Bottle-nosed dolphins live in groups. They live in warm oceans and tropical seas. Numerous investigations of bottlenose dolphin intelligence have been conducted, examining mimicry, use of artificial language, object categorization, and self-recognition. They can"
"Cochranella balionota ""Cochranella"" balionota is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae. While it is here placed in the genus ""Cochranella"", its placement within the subfamily Centroleninae is uncertain (""incertae sedis""). It is found in the Andes of Colombia (Cordillera Occidental: Cauca and Valle del Cauca Departments) and Ecuador (Carchi and Pichincha Provinces). Common names Mindo Cochran frog and mottled glassfrog has been coined for it. Adult males measure in snout–vent length. The head is much wider than the body and the snout is truncate. The fingers have later fringes and some webbing between the outer fingers whereas the"
"logging, and human settlements. Cochranella balionota ""Cochranella"" balionota is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae. While it is here placed in the genus ""Cochranella"", its placement within the subfamily Centroleninae is uncertain (""incertae sedis""). It is found in the Andes of Colombia (Cordillera Occidental: Cauca and Valle del Cauca Departments) and Ecuador (Carchi and Pichincha Provinces). Common names Mindo Cochran frog and mottled glassfrog has been coined for it. Adult males measure in snout–vent length. The head is much wider than the body and the snout is truncate. The fingers have later fringes and some webbing between the"
"Bottlenose skate The bottlenose skate, spearnose skate, or white skate (""Rostroraja alba"") is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. It is a benthic fish native to the coastal eastern Atlantic Ocean. Due to overfishing, it has been depleted or extirpated in many parts of its former range in the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, and is now endangered. The bottlenose skate is found along the coastlines of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from the southern British Isles to South Africa, including the Mediterranean, and extending into the southwestern Indian Ocean to Mozambique. It is listed as occurring in"
"in 1770, basing the name on the ""bottle-nosed whales"" seen by Pehr Kalm in his ""Travels into North America"", and on Thomas Pennant's 1766 description of Samuel Dale's ""bottle-head whale"" found stranded above a bridge in Maldon, Essex, in 1717. Prior to the beginning of whaling, it is estimated that there were upwards of 100,000 of northern bottlenose in the North Atlantic. Between 1850 and 1973, commercial hunting of the species, focussed on populations found off Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Labrador, greatly reduced their numbers across their range. Current conservation concerns include threats from human activities such as disturbance related"
"Tropical bottlenose whale The tropical bottlenose whale (""Indopacetus pacificus""), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position. As of 2010, the species is now known from nearly a dozen strandings and over 65 sightings. The species has had a long history riddled with misidentifications, which are now mostly resolved. A skull and jaw found on a beach in Mackay, Queensland, in 1882, provided the basis for the initial description of this species by H. A. Longman in 1926. Other"
"no modern annelid shares. The name of this worm Kootenascolex, means ""worm from Kootenay National Park"" (in British Columbia, where its fossils were found) and barbarensis is from Barbara Polk Milstein, a researcher on the burgess shale fossils. The hundreds of imprints of this worm found so far are each no more than one inch long. They appear to have been bottom feeders, sifting sedment from the sea/lake floor in their mouths. Kootenayscolex Kootenayscolex, the bristle-headed worm, is a 500 million year old fossil species of proto-annelid resembling a bristle worm, found in British Columbia in 2012. It appears to"
"the wild and in captivity. The best known is the wolphin, a false killer whale-bottlenose dolphin hybrid. The wolphin is fertile, and two currently live at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii. The first was born in 1985 to a female bottlenose. Wolphins also exist in the wild. In captivity, a bottlenose dolphin and a rough-toothed dolphin hybridized. A common dolphin-bottlenose dolphin hybrid born in captivity lives at SeaWorld California. Other hybrids live in captivity around the world and in the wild, such as a bottlenose dolphin-Atlantic spotted dolphin hybrid. Bottlenose dolphins appeared during the Miocene. Known fossil species include"
"genetic variation, other distinct species currently considered to be populations of common bottlenose dolphin are possible. Old scientific data do not distinguish between the two species, making it useless for determining structural differences between them. The IUCN lists both species as data deficient on their Red List of endangered species because of this issue. Some recent genetic evidence suggests the Indo-Pacific bottlenose belongs in the genus ""Stenella"", since it is more like the Atlantic spotted dolphin (""Stenella frontalis"") than the common bottlenose. Bottlenose dolphins have been known to hybridize with other dolphin species. Hybrids with Risso's dolphin occur both in"
"Kootenayscolex Kootenayscolex, the bristle-headed worm, is a 500 million year old fossil species of proto-annelid resembling a bristle worm, found in British Columbia in 2012. It appears to have been an aquatic worm with about 56 bristles on each of up to 25 segments, serving to propel it through mud or water. The one known species in the genus, ""Kootenayscolex barbarensis"", is thought to exhibit primitive traits that show the foundation for the evolution of modern annelids, like ""head"" segment that still has traits of simply being another generic body segment, for example having bristles poking out of it, which"
"classify ""Belonella"" as a synonym of ""Taonius"" following Nancy A. Voss. However, Patrizia Jereb and Clyde F. E. Roper recognize ""Belonella"" as a distinct genus from ""Taonius"", although they also note they are a frequently synonymized. Jereb and Roper also note Kir Nazimovich Nesis and Takashi Okutani as teuthologists who rejected Voss's synonymization of ""Belonella"". Nesis's classification had ""Taonius"" consisting of only the single species ""T. pavo"", and had ""Belonella"" consisting of ""B. belone"" , ""B. borealis"" and an undescribed species from the Antarctic. Taoniinae Taoniinae is a subfamily containing ten genera of glass squids. Unlike Cranchiinae , the other"
"pygmy kingfisher (""Ispidina picta""), half-collared kingfisher (""Alcedo semitorquata""), malachite kingfisher (""Alcedo cristata""), red-billed woodhoopoe (""Phoeniculus purpureus""), crowned hornbill (""Tockus alboterminatus""), trumpeter hornbill (""Bycanistes bucinator""), black-headed oriole (""Oriolus larvatus""), spotted ground-thrush (""Zoothera guttata""), starred robin (""Pogonocichla stellata""), chorister robin (""Cossypha dichroa""), plum-coloured starling (""Cinnyricinclus leucogaster""), forest weaver (""Ploceus bicolor""), thick-billed weaver (""Amblyospiza albifrons""). Eastern green mamba (""Dendroaspis angusticeps""), spotted bush snake (""Philothamnus semivariegatus""), Sundevall's garter snake (""Elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii""), brown water snake (""Lycodonomorphus rufulus""), Nile monitor (""Varanus niloticus niloticus""), flap-neck chameleon (""Chamaeleo dilepis""), KwaZulu dwarf chameleon (""Bradypodion melanocephalum""). Bush squeaker (""Arthroleptis wahlbergi""), guttural toad (""Bufo gutturalis""), raucous toad (""Bufo rangeri""), greater"
"neurotoxins that can cause acute respiratory and neurological symptoms including death in marine mammals, sea turtles, birds, and fishes. Common bottlenose dolphin The common bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops truncatus""), or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae. Common bottlenose dolphins are the most familiar dolphins due to the wide exposure they receive in captivity in marine parks and dolphinaria, and in movies and television programs. The common bottlenose dolphin is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. They inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and are absent only from polar waters. Until recently, all"
"Lagenorhynchus Lagenorhynchus is a genus in the order Cetacea, traditionally containing six species: The name ""Lagenorhynchus"" derives from the Greek ""lagenos"" meaning ""bottle"" and ""rhynchus"" meaning ""beak"". Indeed, the ""bottle-nose"" is a characteristic of this genus. However, the dolphins popularly called bottlenose dolphins belong in the genus ""Tursiops"". The melon-headed whale was once classified in this genus, but was later removed to its own genus, ""Peponocephala"". Recent analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome ""b"" gene indicates the genus ""Lagenorhynchus"", as traditionally conceived, is not a natural (monophyletic) group. found that the white-beaked and Atlantic white-sided dolphins were phylogenetically isolated within the"
"Marine Wildlife Centre in the Cardigan Bay, Wales. The bottlenose dolphin sometimes forms mixed species groups with other species from the dolphin family, particularly larger species, such as the short-finned pilot whale, the false killer whale and Risso's dolphin. They also interact with smaller species, such as the Atlantic spotted dolphin and the rough-toothed dolphin. While interactions with smaller species are sometimes affiliative, they can also be hostile. Some large shark species, such as the tiger shark, the dusky shark, the great white shark and the bull shark, prey on the bottlenose dolphin, especially calves. The bottlenose dolphin is capable"
"but it resembles the venomous variable coral snake, and this frightens predators away. Ficimia publia Ficimia publia (common name: blotched hooknose snake) is a species of colubrid snake, indigenous to southern Mexico (Yucatan, Jalisco, and Morelos), Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The blotched hooknose snake is so called because of its sharp-edged upturned snout. It is normally pale tan, pale brown, yellowish tan, orange-tan or reddish brown in colour. The snake has a diet of mostly spiders and insects, and uses its characteristic 'hooked nose' to forage through the debris on the forest floor. When scared or threatened the snake coils"
"Common bottlenose dolphin The common bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops truncatus""), or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, is the most well-known species from the family Delphinidae. Common bottlenose dolphins are the most familiar dolphins due to the wide exposure they receive in captivity in marine parks and dolphinaria, and in movies and television programs. The common bottlenose dolphin is the largest species of the beaked dolphins. They inhabit temperate and tropical oceans throughout the world, and are absent only from polar waters. Until recently, all bottlenose dolphins were considered as a single species, but now the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and Burrunan dolphin have been"
"fraction of its former range. The Italian National Group for Demersal Resource Evaluation (GRUND) survey captured this species infrequently in the Adriatic Sea. The species is assessed globally as Endangered in the IUCN Red List, and Critically Endangered in the northeast Atlantic. However, its status will require re-evaluation once data from its African range is available. In 2010, Greenpeace International added the bottlenose skate to its Seafood Red List, which includes commonly marketed species that ""have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries"". Bottlenose skate The bottlenose skate, spearnose skate, or white skate (""Rostroraja alba"") is a"
"Bovidae The Bovidae are the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes bison, African buffalo, water buffalo, antelopes, wildebeest, impala, gazelles, sheep, goats, muskoxen, and domestic cattle. A member of this family is called a bovid. With 143 extant species and 300 known extinct species, the family Bovidae consists of eight major subfamilies apart from the disputed Peleinae and Pantholopinae. The family evolved 20 million years ago, in the early Miocene. The bovids show great variation in size and pelage colouration. Excepting some domesticated forms, all male bovids have two or more horns, and in many species females possess"
"use for many years. McDowell and Bogert's usage of Platynota gained favor in the following decades, although it was substituted by the name Varanoidea in some studies. Platynota was given a phylogenetic definition in 1997. It was erected as a stem-based clade that included ""Heloderma"" (the Gila monster and Beaded lizard), ""Lanthanotus"" (the Earless monitor lizard), and ""Varanus"" (monitor lizards), and all lizards that are more closely related to them than to other anguimorphs. These other anguimorphs were traditionally called Diploglossa, and include Anguidae, Anniellidae (American legless lizards), and Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards). A node-based definition was first given in 1998"
"Bothrops Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, ""Bothrops"", is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, ""bothros"", meaning ""pit"", and ώπς, ""ops"", meaning ""eye"" or ""face"", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs. Members of this genus are responsible for more human deaths in the Americas than any other group of venomous snakes. Currently, 45 species are recognized. These snakes range from small, never growing to more than , to large at over in total length. Most are characterized by having a sharp ""canthus rostralis"" and an unelevated snout."
"species: the bottlenose dolphin, the pacific white-sided dolphin (""Lagenorhynchus obliquidens""), the rough-toothed dolphin (""Steno bredanensis""), the pilot whales, the melon-headed whale, the pantropical spotted dolphin (""Stenella attenuata""), the pygmy killer whale, and Risso's dolphin. The false killer whale may respond to distress calls and protect other species from predators, aid in childbirth by helping to remove the afterbirth, and have been known to interact sexually with bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales, including homosexually. It has been known to form mixed-species pods with those dolphins, probably due to shared feeding grounds. In Japan, these only occur in winter, suggesting it is"
"of dolphin in captivity is the bottlenose dolphin, and less than 50 killer whales were found in oceanariums in 2012. Delphinids, especially bottlenose dolphins, are able to hybridize with a wide variety of other delphinid species; wolphins are just one of many possible hybrids. Six species, sometimes referred to as ""blackfish"", are dolphins commonly called whales: the killer whale, the melon-headed whale, the pygmy killer whale, the false killer whale, and the two species of pilot whales, but they are classified under the family Delphinidae. Recent molecular analyses indicate that several delphinid genera (especially ""Stenella"" and ""Lagenorhynchus"") are not monophyletic"
"(""Hyla"" spp.), true frogs (""Rana"" spp.), green anoles (""Anolis carolinensis""), skinks (""Eumeces"" spp.), eastern glass lizards (""Ophisaurus ventralis""), ground skinks (""Scincella lateralis""), mudsnakes (""Farancia abacura""), hog-nosed snakes (""Heterodon platirhinos""), kingsnakes (""Lampropeltis"" spp.), water snakes (""Nerodia"" spp.), crayfish snakes (""Regina"" spp.), brown snakes (""Storeria dekayi""), garter snakes and ribbon snakes (""Thamnophis"" spp.), other cottonmouths (""A. piscivorus""), rattlesnakes (""Crotalus"" spp.), common snapping turtles (""Chelydra serpentina""), mud turtles (""Kinosternon"" spp.), common musk turtles (""Sternotherus odoratus""), Florida cooters (""Pseudemys floridana""), sliders (""Trachemys scripta""), eastern box turtles (""Terrapene carolina""), Florida softshell turtles (""Apalone ferox""), baby American alligators (""Alligator mississippiensis""), wood thrushes (""Hylocichla mustelina""), chickadees (""Parus"""
"entirely of Copepods: small zooplankton living in the water column. However, in captivity the Scooter Dragonet can often be acclimated to consuming live, frozen or even artificial foods, such as flakes. Ocellated dragonet The ocellated dragonet or scooter dragonet (""Neosynchiropus ocellatus"") is a species of tropical marine fish in the ""Callionymidae"" family. It is native to the southwest Pacific Ocean from southern Japan to the Marquesan Islands. The Scooter Dragonet is often referred to as the Ocellated Dragonet and, in the aquarium trade, as the Scooter Blenny. This often causes confusion because many then believe that the species is a"
"and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Burrunan dolphin The Burrunan dolphin (""Tursiops australis"") is a species of bottlenose dolphin found in parts of Victoria, Australia. It was recognised as a species in 2011. By size, the Burrunan dolphin is between the other two species of bottlenose dolphins, and only around 150 individuals have been found in two locations. The species was formally named ""Tursiops australis"" by the researcher who described the species, Kate Charlton-Robb of Monash University, and colleagues. The dolphin's common name, ""burrunan"", is an Aboriginal name in the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung and Taungurung languages, meaning ""large sea fish of the porpoise"
"appearance. Hundreds if not thousands of bottlenose dolphins live in captivity across the world, though exact numbers are hard to determine. Other species kept in captivity are spotted dolphins, false killer whales and common dolphins, Commerson's dolphins, as well as Rough-toothed Dolphins, but all in much lower numbers than the bottlenose dolphin. There are also fewer than ten pilot whales, Amazon river dolphins, Risso's dolphins, spinner dolphins, or tucuxi in captivity. An unusual and very rare hybrid dolphin, known as a wolphin, is kept at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii, which is a cross between a bottlenose dolphin and"
"Balanoglossus Balanoglossus is an ocean-dwelling acorn worm (Enteropneusta) genus of great zoological interest because, being a Hemichordate, it is an ""evolutionary link"" between invertebrates and vertebrates. ""Balanoglossus"" is a deuterostome, and resembles the Ascidians or sea squirts, in that it possesses branchial openings, or ""gill slits"". It has notochord in the upper part of the body and has no nerve chord. It does have a stomochord, however, which is gut chord within the collar. Their heads may be as small as 2.5 mm (1/10 in) or as large as 5 mm (1/5 in). J.F. Eschscholtz who discovered Balanoglossus in 1825"
"Australia was forecast to be stable with little variation in mortality over time (Manlik ""et al."" 2016). In US waters, hunting and harassing of marine mammals is forbidden in almost all circumstances, from the passing of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Bottlenose dolphin Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. Molecular studies show the genus contains three species: the common bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops truncatus""), the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (""Tursiops aduncus""), and the Burrunan dolphin (""Tursiops australis""). Bottlenose dolphins inhabit warm and temperate seas worldwide, being found"
"Bluntnose stingray The bluntnose stingray or Say's stingray (""Dasyatis say"", often misspelled ""sayi"") is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, native to the coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. state of Massachusetts to Venezuela. It is a bottom-dwelling species that prefers sandy or muddy habitats deep, and is migratory in the northern portion of its range. Typically growing to across, the bluntnose stingray is characterized by a rhomboid pectoral fin disc with broadly rounded outer corners and an obtuse-angled snout. It has a whip-like tail with both an upper keel and a lower fin"
"Bluntnose stingray The bluntnose stingray or Say's stingray (""Dasyatis say"", often misspelled ""sayi"") is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, native to the coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. state of Massachusetts to Venezuela. It is a bottom-dwelling species that prefers sandy or muddy habitats deep, and is migratory in the northern portion of its range. Typically growing to across, the bluntnose stingray is characterized by a rhomboid pectoral fin disc with broadly rounded outer corners and an obtuse-angled snout. It has a whip-like tail with both an upper keel and a lower fin"
"architecta"" is a different species from both ""Phoronis psammophila"" and ""Phoronis muelleri"", and that ""[the phoronids'] species diversity is currently underestimated"". In 2009 Temereva described what may be larvae of ""Phoronopsis albomaculata"" and ""Phoronopsis californica"". She wrote that, while there are 12 undisputed adult phoronid species, 25 morphological types of larvae have been identified. Phoronid Phoronids (scientific name Phoronida, sometimes called horseshoe worms) are a small phylum of marine animals that filter-feed with a lophophore (a ""crown"" of tentacles), and build upright tubes of chitin to support and protect their soft bodies. They live in most of the oceans and"