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M. aguadae (La Tuxpeña, Campeche [1]), M. amarus (Isla Mujeres), M. ericymba (Sambulá cave, Mérida City, Yucatán) and M. trispilus (San Pedro River, Guatemala)


Saga (bush cricket)[edit]

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Saga is a genus of relatively large, predatory bush crickets or katydids, native to the southern half of Europe and western and central Asia. It is the only genus in the tribe Sagini and belongs to the subfamily Saginae.[1]

SP is relatively widespread, but all other species in the genus are restricted to the southern and eastern Balkans, Greek islands or Southwest Asia; they generally inhabit open or semi-open habitats that are fairly dry and sunny. (Levant, Caucasus, Iran)

They are among the largest insects in their range and among the world's largest Orthoptera. Females tend to grow larger than males, and females also have a ovipositor, which typically as a length that equals slightly more than half the head-and-body length Females are wingless and males only have small wings. They are highly stealthy and well-camouflaged in green or brown, in some species with black sections.

Predatory, feeding especially on other Orthoptera, slowly sneaking up on their prey until in range, then suddenly jumping on it and grabbing it with their spiny legs. Eggs deposited in the soil with the ovipositor. Eggs among largest for an insect and many take up to a few years to hatch.


There are 18 recognized species in the genus Saga:[2]


Arachnacris, Pseudophyllus, Siliquofera, Steirodon; Tropidacris, Titanacris.

Anole[edit]

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Plasticity, age

Bufotes[edit]

B. latastii ……… [[3]–p.292-5,[4]]

Their underparts are plain whitish, light greyish or yellowish, sometimes with small grey-green spots.[3][5]

Underparts colours

Fish[edit]

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Killifish[edit]

  • Killifish: [7]
  • Killifish incubation: [8]
  • Annual vs. non-annual: #1 Furness (2015): The evolution of an annual life cycle in killifish: adaptation to ephemeral aquatic environments through embryonic diapause; #2 Berois et al. (2015). Annual Fishes: Life History Strategy, Diversity, and Evolution

Nothobranchiinae (a=annual, n=non-annual):


  • Feeding: Mostly small invertebrates, some large species also other fish. Seed dispersal by small South American fish (killifish Plesiolebias, characiforms Acestrorhyncus, Astyanax & Metynnis, catfish Anadoras): [9]
  • Aquarium: Costa (2013). Historical biogeography of aplocheiloid killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes).

Clingfish[edit]

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Scholar: food+clingfish, e.g. [10]

Breeding behavior: [11], [12] (some place eggs on land in intertidal zone, guarded and tended to by a parent, likely the male), [13] (breeding in captivity, territoriality), Sicyases sanguineus (young in groups).

[14]

Taxonomy[edit]

Shore clingfish / Cornish sucker [taxonomy: Lepadogaster purpurea E. Atlantic & Mediterranean vs. Lepadogaster lepadogaster Mediterranean & Black Sea & local in warm E. Atlantic: [15], [16], [17], [18]; note also aberrant Lepadogaster candolii, belongs in own genus: [19]]).

Refs[edit]

References

  1. ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "tribe Sagini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  2. ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Saga Charpentier, 1825". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Stock2001a was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Khan, M.S. (1997). "A new toad of genus Bufo from the foot of Siachin Glacier, Baltistan, northeastern Pakistan". Pakistan J. Zool. 29 (1): 43–48.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Escoriza2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).