Uncia Uncia is the Latin name for which animal?
"trilogy ""His Dark Materials"", Lord Asriel's dæmon is a snow leopard named Stelmaria. Tai Lung, the main antagonist of the 2008 film ""Kung Fu Panda"", is an anthropomorphized snow leopard. In the 2013 film ""The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"", photojournalist Sean O'Connell (played by Sean Penn) is shown photographing snow leopards in Afghanistan. Snow leopard The snow leopard or ounce (""Panthera uncia"") is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is estimated to number less than"
"otter (""Enhydra lutris""), bearded seal (""Erignathus barbatus""), donkey (""Equus asinus""), cougars (""Felis concolor coryi"", ""Felis concolor stanleyana""), bobcat (""Felis rufus floridanus""), Atlantic white-sided dolphins (""Lagenorhynchus acutus""), guanaco (""Lama guanicoe""), alpaca (""Vicugna pacos""), otter (""Lutra lutra""), wild dog (""Lycaon pictus""), Bartels's spiny rat (""Maxomys bartelsii""), Musschenbroek's spiny rat (""Maxomys musschenbroekii""), prairie vole (""Microtus ochrogaster""), common European weasel (""Mustela nivalis""), mink (""Mustela vison""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethica""), mountain goats (""Oreamnos americanus""), Grant's gazelle (""Nanger granti""), slow loris (""Nycticebus coucang""), African lions (""Panthera leo""), leopard (""Panthera pardus""), tiger (""Panthera tigris""), baboon (""Papio cynocephalus""), Pacific harbor seal (""Phoca vitulina richardsi"") chamois (""Rupicapra rupicapra""), Polynesian rat"
"Supplicia canum The supplicia canum (""punishment of the dogs"") was an annual sacrifice of ancient Roman religion in which live dogs were suspended from a ""furca"" (""fork"") or cross ""(crux)"" and paraded. It appears on none of the extant Roman calendars, but a late source places it on August 3 ""(III Non. Aug.)"". In the same procession, geese were decorated in gold and purple and carried in honor. Ancient sources who explain the origin of the ""supplicia"" say that the geese were honored for saving the city during the Gallic siege of Rome. When the Gauls launched a nocturnal assault"
"Supplicia canum The supplicia canum (""punishment of the dogs"") was an annual sacrifice of ancient Roman religion in which live dogs were suspended from a ""furca"" (""fork"") or cross ""(crux)"" and paraded. It appears on none of the extant Roman calendars, but a late source places it on August 3 ""(III Non. Aug.)"". In the same procession, geese were decorated in gold and purple and carried in honor. Ancient sources who explain the origin of the ""supplicia"" say that the geese were honored for saving the city during the Gallic siege of Rome. When the Gauls launched a nocturnal assault"
"derives from classical Latin ""panthēra"", itself from the ancient Greek ""pánthēr"" (πάνθηρ). In Mexican Spanish, its nickname is ""el tigre"": 16th century Spaniards had no native word in their language for the jaguar, which is smaller than a lion, but bigger than a leopard, nor had ever encountered it in the Old World, and so named it after the tiger, since its ferocity would have been known to them through Roman writings and popular literature during the Renaissance. ""Onca"" is the Portuguese ""onça"", with the cedilla dropped for typographical reasons, found in English as ""ounce"" for the snow leopard, ""Panthera"
"as by the Dacians and the Parthians. Again, this would be a reference to the tranquility afforded by the protection, fidelity, and valor of the Roman army. There is a dissenting opinion, that being that the animal held in Tranquillitas’s hand is not a dragon, but rather a capricornus, which would tie in with the maritime theme of the transportation of Egypt’s grain harvest across the Mediterranean to Rome. The capricornus was a marvelous animal with the forequarter of a goat with prominent horns and the hindquarter terminating in the tail of a fish, said in mythology to be a"
"Luscinia Luscinia is a genus of smallish passerine birds, containing the nightingales and relatives. Formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, they are now considered to be Old World flycatchers (Muscicapidae) of the chat subfamily (Saxicolinae). The chats are a lineage of Old World flycatchers that has evolved convergently to thrushes. The word ""Luscinia"" was used for nightingales and similar birds in Classical Latin (e.g. in the AD 70s ""Naturalis Historia"" by Pliny the Elder), if not earlier. Etymologically, it might be derived from ""luscus"" (Latin for ""half-blind"", ""half-understood"" etc.) or ""clueō"" (Latin for ""to be well-known"") +"
"animal inhabiting the marshes of Entia. The name of the animal is Lem's invention, used in earlier tales about Tichy. (In Polish it is ""kurdel"", however in declensions of the word the root converts into ""kurdl-"", hence there are no associations with the English word ""curdle""). The name ""Luzania"" derives from the Polish root ""luz-"" with the meaning of ""loose"", ""not restrained""; the choice will become clear below. Kurdlandia's guiding ideology is ""national mobilism"", that is the vast majority of the population must live inside of the stomachs, various passages and internal organs of the kurdls. Kurdls walk about the"
"""Onça"" is the Brazilian Portuguese word for jaguar, ""Panthera onca"", where a spotted jaguar is known as ""onça-pintada"" and a melanistic one as ""onça-preta"". These are real animals, occurring as far north as Mexico and possibly into the southwest of the United States. Also, a cat some call the ""puma"" ""Puma concolor"" is known most often as ""onça-parda"" in some areas of Brazil (in others, it is known by the name that predates American cougar, ""suçuarana""). A legend that is claimed to be less well known among cryptozoologists states that there are two species of jaguarundi living in Mexico, one"
"- mouse (""M. musculus"") ""Eimeria flavescens"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria gallatii"" - red-backed vole (""C. gapperi"") ""Eimeria granulosa"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria hirci"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria intestinalis"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria irresidua"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria intricata"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria jolchijevi"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria krijgsmanni"" - mouse (""M. musculus"") ""Eimeria larimerensis"" - Uinta ground squirrel (""Spermophilus armatus"") ""Eimeria macusaniensis"" - llamas (""Lama glama""), guanacos (""Lama guanicoe""), alpacas (""Vicugna pacos""), vicunas (""Vicugna vicugna"") ""Eimeria magna"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria marconii"" - red-backed vole (""Clethrionomys gapperi"") ""Eimeria media"" - rabbit (""O."
"with the legend around Icarius, who gave the gift of wine to other men, but was murdered by them, because they had had no experience with intoxication and mistook the wine for poison. It is stated this Icarius, became Arcturus, while his dog, Maira, became Canicula (Procyon), although ""Arcturus"" here may be used in the sense of the constellation rather than the star. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches"
"Oncilla The oncilla (""Leopardus tigrinus""), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the population is threatened by deforestation and conversion of habitat to agricultural land. In 2013, it was proposed to assign the population in southern Brazil and Cuyoaco to a new species ""L. guttulus"", after it was found not to be interbreeding with the ""L. tigrinus"" population in northeast Brazil. The oncilla resembles the margay and the ocelot, but it is"
"species. In some Mexican states the jaguarundi is also referred to as ""onza"". Furthermore, there are also local legends claiming that there are two species of jaguarundi, one of which is usually called ""onza"". Onza The Onza is claimed to be a feline species similar to a cougar. It is a cryptid—a creature whose existence has been alleged but not proven. The term has also been used to refer to the jaguarundi (""Puma yaguaroundi""). The Spanish name ""onza"" derives from the Latin ""lynx"", ""lyncis"", and is equivalent to the English word ""ounce"", originally applied to the lynx but now more"
"Unicorn The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn was depicted in ancient seals of the Indus Valley Civilization and was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, and Aelian. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some versions translate as ""unicorn"". In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long horn and cloven hooves (sometimes a"
"Urticina piscivora Urticina piscivora, common names fish-eating anemone and fish-eating urticina, is a northeast Pacific species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae. ""Urticina piscivora"" is a large anemone, growing to a maximum height of around and in diameter. The column is bright red in colour. The acontia is absent, but it has tubercles. These are not white and are arranged in circumferential rows. Normally they do not accumulate debris such as shells and sand. This species may be confused with ""Urticina crassicornis"". Although they may both have a red column, the tentacles of ""U. crassicornis"" normally have transverse bands,"
"red deer, wild boar, red foxes, stoats, least weasels, red squirrels, alpine marmots, mountain hares, Eurasian badgers, beech martens, European pine martens, European mole, hazel grouse, lammergeiers, ravens, carrion crow, great spotted woodpeckers, black woodpeckers, buzzards, nutcrackers, Eurasian dotterels, rock partridges, western capercaillies, Eurasian eagle-owls and golden eagles. For example, ""Arnica montana"", ""Biscutella leavigata"", ""Androsace vitaliana"", ""Pulsatilla vernalis"", ""Artemisia umbelliformis"" (genépi), ""Aster alpinus"", ""Dianthus superbus"", ""Dianthus carthusianorum"", ""Trollius europaeus"", ""Dryas octopetala"", ""Crocus albiflorus"", ""Draba aizoides"", ""Hepatica nobilis"", ""Gentiana acaulis"", ""Gentiana kochiana"", ""Lilium martagon"", ""Lilium croceum"" subsp. ""bulbiferum"", ""Linaria alpina"", twinflower ""Linnaea borealis"", ""Aconitum napellus"", ""Paludella squarrosa"", ""Primula vulgaris"", ""Primula elatior"","
"that were too large for ""Miacis"" to kill, it is likely that the small animal, somewhere between the size of a cat and a begal, would have been a prolific rodent hunter and a hunter of ""Bathygenys"". Gustafsonia Gustafsonia is an extinct genus of carnivoran belonging to the family Amphicyonidae (a bear dog). The type species, Gustafsonia cognita, was described in 1986 by Eric Paul Gustafson, who originally interpreted it as a miacid and named it Miacis cognitus. It was subsequently considered to be the only species of the diverse genus ""Miacis"" that belonged to the crown-group Carnivora, within the"
"meriana"" and a split-banded owlet butterfly ""Opsiphanes cassina merianae"". The Cuban sphinx moth has been named ""Erinnyis merianae"". A bug with no common name has been named ""Plisthenes merianae"". A genus of mantises has been named ""Sibylla"". The bird-eating spider ""Avicularia merianae"" was named in her honour, referencing her research on spiders. The spider ""Metellina merianae"" was named after her in 2017. The Argentine black-and-white tegu lizard has been named ""Salvator merianae"". The cane toad was named ""Rhinella merianae"". A snail with no common name was named ""Coquandiella meriana"". The Madagascan African stonechat bird was given the name ""Saxicola torquatus"
"is the name of a constellation comprising stars from the head and forelegs of Ursa Major; ""pucwan"" (ပုဇွန်) is a general term for a crustacean, such as prawn, shrimp, crab, lobster, etc. In Roman mythology, Jupiter (the king of the gods) lusts after a young woman named Callisto, a nymph of Diana. Juno, Jupiter's jealous wife, discovers that Callisto has a son named Arcas, and believes it is by Jupiter. Juno then transforms the beautiful Callisto into a bear so she no longer attracts Jupiter. Callisto, while in bear form, later encounters her son Arcas. Arcas almost shoots the bear,"
"includes also the acouchis (""Myoprocta""). ""Cuniculus"" is the appropriate genus name instead of ""Agouti"" based on a 1998 ruling of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature as the lowland paca's genus. The word comes from a word in the Tupi language that designates the animal but also means 'awaken, alert'. The lowland paca has coarse fur without underfur, dark brown to black on the upper body and white or yellowish on the underbelly. It usually has three to five rows of white spots along its sides, against a dark grey background. It has thick strong legs, with four digits in"
"- ""Euogus"" - ""Euscapularia"" - ""Eusemion"" - ""Exoristobia"" - ""Forcipestricis"" - ""Formicencyrtus"" - ""Fulgoridicida"" - ""Gahaniella"" - ""Gentakola"" - ""Ginsiana"" - ""Globulencyrtus"" - ""Gonzalezia"" - ""Grissellia"" - ""Gwala"" - ""Habrolepis"" - ""Habrolepoidea"" - ""Habrolepopteryx"" - ""Hadrencyrtus"" - ""Hadzhibeylia"" - ""Haligra"" - ""Helegonatopus"" - ""Helygia"" - ""Hemencyrtus"" - ""Hemileucoceras"" - ""Hengata"" - ""Hesperencyrtus"" - ""Heterococcidoxenus"" - ""Hexacladia"" - ""Hexacnemus"" - ""Hexencyrtus"" - ""Homalopoda"" - ""Homalotyloidea"" - ""Homalotylus"" - ""Homosemion"" - ""Hoplopsis"" - ""Iceromyia"" - ""Ilicia"" - ""Inbiaphycus"" - ""Indaphycus"" - ""Ioessa"" - ""Islawes"" - ""Isodromoides"" - ""Isodromus"" - ""Ixodiphagus"" - ""Kataka"" - ""Koenigsmannia"" - ""Kurdjumovia"" - ""Laccacida"" - ""Lakshaphagus"" - ""Lamennaisia"""
"Suovetaurilia The suovetaurilia or ""suovitaurilia"" was one of the most sacred and traditional rites of Roman religion: the sacrifice of a pig (""sus""), a sheep (""ovis"") and a bull (""taurus"") to the deity Mars to bless and purify land (Lustratio). The ritual is preserved in Cato the Elder's ""De Agri Cultura"", ""On Agriculture"". The first step was to lead the three animals around the boundaries of the land to be blessed, pronouncing the following words: ""Manius"" in this passage may be an obscure minor deity, related to the Manes, or may be the equivalent of English John Doe. Then, before"
"Ciconia Ciconia is a genus of birds in the stork family. The genus name is the Latin word for ""stork"", and was originally recorded in the works of Horace and Ovid. Six of the seven living species occur in the Old World, but the maguari stork has a South American range. In addition, fossils suggest that ""Ciconia"" storks were somewhat more common in the tropical Americas in prehistoric times. These are large storks, typically 100 cm tall, with a 180 cm wingspan and a long thick bill. Members of this genus are more variable in plumage than other storks, but"
"in a grove (""lucus"") at the fifth milestone from Rome along the Via Claudia. The celebration included games (""ludi"") and a sacrificial offering of the blood and entrails of an unweaned puppy (""catulus""). Most animal sacrifice in the public religion of ancient Rome resulted in a communal meal and thus involved domestic animals whose flesh was a normal part of the Roman diet; the dog occurs as a victim most often in magic and private rites for Hecate and other chthonic deities, but was offered publicly at the Lupercalia and two other sacrifices pertaining to grain crops. Like many other"
"(bull), Cancer (crab), Leo (lion), Scorpio (scorpion), and Pisces (fish)—are animals, while two others, Sagittarius (horse/man) and Capricorn (fish/goat) are hybrid animals; the name ""zodiac"" indeed means a circle of animals. All twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac are animals. Plants including trees are important in mythology and religion, where they symbolise themes such as fertility, growth, immortality and rebirth, and may be more or less magical. Thus in Latvian mythology, Austras koks is a tree which grows from the start of the Sun's daily journey across the sky. A different cosmic tree is Yggdrasil, the World tree of Norse"
"surface in the manner of concentric/parallel rows. The taxonomic identity of ""Ausia"" is unresolved. Ausia (animal) Ausia fenestrata is a curious Ediacaran period (630 – 542 million years ago) fossil represented by only one specimen 5 cm long from the Nama Group, a Vendian to Cambrian group of stratigraphic sequences deposited in the Nama foreland basin in central and southern Namibia. It has similarity to ""Burykhia"" from Ediacaran (Vendian) siliciclastic sediments exposed on the Syuzma River of northern Russia. This fossil is of the form of an elongate bag-like sandstone cast (Nama-type preservation) tapering to a cone on one end."
"bishop quips that he disagrees, that Eusebius left his precious cargo (Julia) in Corsica. The choice of a bull, Poseidon's animal, suggests that they had intruded on the yearly rites of the sacrum promontorium. While they were celebrating by becoming intoxicated and Saint Julia was sighing deeply for their error it was announced to Felix by his satellites that there was a girl in the ship who derided the worship of the gods. This ""son of the serpent"" asked Eusebius, ""Why did not all who are with you come down to worship our gods? I heard that there is a"
"Unicorn (spider) Unicorn (""one horn"", in Latin) is a genus of goblin spiders (family Oonopidae) from South America, containing seven species that occur predominantly in high elevation, semi-desert regions of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Individuals are relatively large for goblin spiders, measuring up to 3.0 mm (0.12 in) in body length. The genus name refers to a characteristic pointed projection between the eyes and jaws of males. In at least one species, broken-off tips of the male pedipalps have been found within the genitalia of females, postulated as a means of sperm competition. ""Unicorn"" possesses several traits that suggest it"
"name is a combination of the Latin word ""magnus"" ""large"" and ""manus"", ""hand"", a reference to the big hands of the animal. The specific name refers to its origin in Soria. The fossils, with catalogue numbers MNS 2000/132, 2001/122, 2002/95, 2003/69, 2004/54, were found in the Golmayo Formation which dates from the Hauterivian - Barremian, about 130 million years old. It consists of a partial skeleton with skull and lower jaws. Have been preserved: parts of the maxilla, a piece of premaxilla, a left dentary piece, a piece of the right surangular, pieces of the hyoid apparatus, loose edges of"
"cuniculus"") ""Eimeria melanuri"" - garden dormouse (""Eliomys quercinus"") ""Eimeria myoxi"" - garden dormouse (""E. quercinus"") ""Eimeria nagpurensis"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria nieschulzi"" - brown rat (""R. norvegicus"") ""Eimeria ninakohlyakimovae"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria ovinoidalis"" - sheep (""O. aries"") ""Eimeria pallida"" - goat (""C. hircus"") ""Eimeria palustris"" - marsh rice rat (""Oryzomys palustris"") ""Eimeria papillata"" - mouse (""M. musculus"") ""Eimeria perforans"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria phocae"" - Sable Island harbour seals (""Phoca vitulina"") ""Eimeria pileata"" - red-backed vole (""Clethrionomys gapperi"") ""Eimeria pipistrellus"" - Kuhl's pipistrelle (""Pipistrellus kuhlii"") ""Eimeria piriformis"" - rabbit (""O. cuniculus"") ""Eimeria prionotemni"" - Bennett's wallaby"
"related to xenarthrans as part of a now-discarded group called Paratheria. The generic name, ""Vucetichia"", commemorates Argentinean paleontologist Guiomar Vucetich, and the specific name, ""gracilis"" (Latin for ""slender""), refers to the animal's small size. However, in 1990 David W. Krause and Bonaparte argued that Gondwanatheria, including ""Ferugliotherium"" (family Ferugliotheriidae), ""Gondwanatherium"", and ""Sudamerica"" (family Sudamericidae), should be placed within Multituberculata. Two years later, Krause, Bonaparte, and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska described additional material of ""Ferugliotherium"" (which they tentatively placed in the multituberculate suborder Plagiaulacoidea) and suggested that the supposed upper molars of ""Vucetichia"" were in fact heavily worn first lower molariforms (mf1) of"
"red-breasted flycatcher (""Ficedula parva""), European honey buzzard (""Pernis apivorus""), European nightjar (""Caprimulgus europaeus""), grey-headed woodpecker (""Picus canus""), Ural owl (""Strix uralensis""), corn crake (""Crex crex""), barred warbler (""Sylvia nisoria""), red-backed shrike (""Lanius collurio""), ortolan bunting (""Emberiza hortulana""), European roller (""Coracias garrulus""), Montagu's harrier (""Circus pygargus"") or middle spotted woodpecker (""Dendrocopos medius""). Species of reptiles, amphibians and frogs: common adder (""Vipera berus""), green lizard (""Lacerta viridis""), smooth snake (""Coronella austriaca""), fire salamander (""Salamandra salamandra""), alpine newt (""Triturus alpestris""), common toad (""Bufo bufo"") or yellow-bellied toad (""Bombina veriegata""). Species of fish: Danube gudgeon (""Gobio uranoscopus""), Mediterranean barbel (""Barbus meridionalis""), ""Sabanejewia aurata"", streber"
"Junonia Junonia is a genus of nymphalid butterflies, described by Jacob Hübner in 1819. They are commonly known as buckeyes, pansies or commodores. This genus flies on every continent except Antarctica. The genus contains roughly 30 to 35 species. These butterflies are medium to large (wingspan 40–110 mm). The ground colour is brown or grey suffused blue. Spots on the wings are orange, blue or pink and sometimes large. Many of the species can occur in several colour forms. The head is of moderate size with smooth, prominent eyes. The palpi are rather long, sharply pointed, ascending, generally convergent and"