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| x Meat ant |
Meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus), also known as meat-eater ants or gravel ants, are a species of ant belonging to the Iridomyrmex genus. They can be found throughout Australia.
Meat ants live in underground nests of up to 64,000 workers. Many nests...
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Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. Leafhoppers, colloquially known as "hoppers", are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Membracoidea in the order Hemiptera. They belong to a lineage...
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The oxpecker consists of two species of bird which make up the family Buphagidae; some ornithologists regard them as a subfamily Buphaginae within the starling family Sturnidae but they appear to be quite distinct . Oxpeckers are endemic to sub...
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| x Helicobacter pylori |
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Helicobacter pylori (pronounced /ˌhɛlɪkoˈbæktər pɪˈlɔraɪ/) is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium that can inhabit various areas of the stomach and duodenum. It causes a chronic low-level inflammation of the stomach lining and is strongly...
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| x Alder |
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Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family (Family Betulaceae). The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North...
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Frankia is a genus of nitrogen fixing filamentous bacteria that live in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants, similar to Rhizobia. Bacteria of this genus form root nodules.
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| x Heteractis magnifica |
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Heteractis magnifica, also known by the common names magnificent sea anemone or Ritteri anemone, is a species of sea anemone that lives in the Indo-Pacific area, and can grow up to 1 metre (3 feet) in diameter in the wild. It can be kept in aquaria...
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| x Ocellaris Clownfish |
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The Ocellaris Clownfish, Clownfish or False Percula Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) is a popular aquarium fish. It is very closely related to A. percula, the Orange Clownfish or "True Percula Clownfish", and often lives in association with the sea...
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| x Shrimp |
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Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can...
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| x Goby |
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The gobies form the family Gobiidae, which is one of the largest families of fish, with more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most are relatively small, typically less than 10 cm (4 in) in length. Gobies include some of the smallest...
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| x Lion |
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The Lion (Panthera leo) is one of four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub...
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| x Bear |
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Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a...
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| x Shark |
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Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago, before the time of the dinosaurs.
Since that time, sharks...
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| x Puma |
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Human |
The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount, or panther, depending on the region, is a mammal of the Felidae family, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild...
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| x Goose |
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The word Goose (plural: Geese) is the English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller.
This article deals with...
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| x Cow |
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Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos...
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| x Chicken |
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The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep...
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| x Snail |
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The word snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word snail is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. Snails...
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| x Pig |
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Pigs are a genus of even-toed ungulates within the family Suidae. The name hog most commonly refers to the domestic pig (Sus domestica) in everyday parlance, but technically encompasses several distinct species, including the wild boar. Swine is a...
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| x Dog |
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The dog (Canis lupus familiaris, pronounced /ˈkeɪ.nɪs ˈluːpəs fʌˈmɪliɛərɪs/) is a domesticated form of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog has been...
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| x Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard |
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Mojave Desert |
The Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard, Uma inornata, is a Californian species of lizard. It is listed as an endangered species in California, a threatened species in the United States and the IUCN classifies it as endangered.
The Coachella Valley...
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| x Crotalus scutulatus |
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Mojave Desert |
Crotalus scutulatus is a venomous pitviper species found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and central Mexico. It is perhaps best known for its potent neurotoxic venom. Two subspecies are recognized, including the nominate subspecies...
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| x Death Valley pupfish |
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Mojave Desert |
The Death Valley pupfish, Cyprinodon salinus salinus, is a species of fish that is the last known survivor of what is thought to have been a large ecosystem of fish species that lived in Lake Manly, which dried up at the end of the last ice age...
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| x Fringe-toed lizard |
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Mojave Desert |
Fringe-toed lizards are reptiles of the genus Uma in the family Phrynosomatidae. They are adapted for life in sandy deserts.
These lizards have a brown and tan coloration that helps them to blend in with the sand. In addition, they also have special...
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| x Costa's Hummingbird |
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Mojave Desert |
The Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a species of hummingbird.
The Costa's Hummingbird is very small, a mature adult growing to only 3 to 3½ inches in length. The male Costa's has a mainly green back and flanks, a small black tail and wings,...
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| x Desert iguana |
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Mojave Desert |
The desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) is one of the most common lizards of the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They also occur on several Gulf of California islands.
The species was first...
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| x Zebra-tailed lizard |
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Mojave Desert |
Zebra-tailed lizards live in open desert with fairly hard-packed soil, scattered vegetation and scattered rocks, typically desert flats, washes and plains. They range from 2.5 to 4 inches (63 to 100 mm) in length. These lizards are grey to sandy...
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| x Mohave Ground Squirrel |
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Mojave Desert |
The Mojave Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus mohavensis, is a species of ground squirrel found only in the western Mojave Desert, California. The squirrel was discovered in 1886 by Frank Stephens of San Diego (after whom the Stephens Soft-Haired Ground...
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| x Mohave tui chub | Mojave Desert |
The Mohave tui chub (Gila bicolor mohavensis) is an endangered chub originally found only in the Mojave River. Even though named after the Mojave River, the fish's name is normally spelled "Mohave". It was named by ichthyologist Robert Rush Miller....
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| x Greater Roadrunner | Mojave Desert |
The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) is a long-legged bird in the cuckoo family, Cuculidae. It is one of the two roadrunner species in the genus Geococcyx; the other is the Lesser Roadrunner. This roadrunner is also known as the...
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| x Sauromalus ater |
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Mojave Desert |
The Common Chuckwalla (Sauromalus ater) is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It inhabits the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends from Eastern California, Utah, and Nevada...
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| x Bendire's Thrasher | Mojave Desert |
Bendire's Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) a perching bird native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, is a medium-sized species of thrasher.
Bendire's Thrasher is 23–28 cm (9 to 11 inches) in length, with a long tail and a short bill...
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| x Desert Tortoise |
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Mojave Desert |
The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The epithet agassizii is in honor of Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe...
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| x Uma scoparia | Mojave Desert |
The Mojave fringe-toed lizard (Uma scoparia), is a medium sized, white or grayish, black-spotted diurnal lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae. It is adapted to living in sand dunes in the Mojave Desert. It ranges from Los Angeles County, Riverside...
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| x Urosaurus graciosus |
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Mojave Desert |
The long-tailed brush lizard, Urosaurus graciosus, occurs in the Mojave and northwestern Sonoran Deserts in the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Sonora, and Baja California. This species received its common name due to its tail, which is more...
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| x Cactus Wren |
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Mojave Desert |
The Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) is the largest North American wren, and is 18-23 cm (7-9 inches) long.
unlike the other cool smaller wrens, the Cactus Wren is easily seen. It has the loud voice characteristic of wrens. The Cactus...
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| x Leatherside chub |
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The leatherside chub, Snyderichthys copei is a cyprinid fish of western North America.
This is a small fish, reported at up to 15 cm (6 in) in length, but more typically half that. The tapered body is covered with very small scales over a skin with...
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| x Desert Cottontail |
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The Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii), also known as Audubon's Cottontail, is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae.
The Desert Cottontail is found throughout the central United States from eastern Montana to western...
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| x Crotalus oreganus lutosus |
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Crotalus oreganus lutosus is a venomous pitviper subspecies found in the Great Basin region of the United States.
Adult specimens are 66-121 cm in length, but rarely exceed an overall length of 1 m. The males grow larger than the females.
On the...
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| x Cui-ui |
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The cui-ui, Chasmistes cujus, is a large sucker fish endemic to Pyramid Lake and, previous to its dessication in the Twentieth Century, Winnemucca Lake in northwestern Nevada. It feeds primarily on zooplankton and possibly on nanoplankton (such as...
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| x Perognathus parvus |
The Great Basin Pocket Mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a species of rodent in the Heteromyidae family. It is found in Canada and the United States.
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| x Great Basin Spadefoot |
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The Great Basin Spadefoot (Spea intermontana) is a species of toad in the Scaphiopodidae family.
The Great Basin Spadefoot ranges from 3.8 to 6.3 cm long. It is usually gray, olive, or brown colored. Gray streaks outline an hourglass shaped marking...
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| x Northern Desert Horned Lizard |
The Northern Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos platyrhinos) is a subspecies of desert horned lizard. It ranges between 2.5 to 3.75 inches from snout to vent, and can get to 5.5 inches long including the tail. It is commonly referred to as...
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| x Ord's Kangaroo Rat |
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Ord's Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii, is a kangaroo rat that is native to Western North America, specifically the Great Plains and the Great Basin with its range extending from extreme southern Canada to central Mexico.
Ord's Kangaroo Rat has a 5th...
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| x Lahontan redside |
The Lahontan redside Richardsonius egregius is a cyprinid fish of the Great Basin in eastern California and western Nevada.
Lahontan redsides are noted for their breeding colors, consisting of a bright red stripe with a yellow border on each side....
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| x Southern sagebrush lizard |
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The Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) is a common lizard found in mid to high latitudes in the Western United States of America. It belongs to the genus Sceloporus (spiny lizards) in the Phrynosomatidae family of reptiles. Named after the...
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A Mustang is a free-roaming feral horse of the North American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but the more correct term is feral horses.
In 1971, the United...
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| x Pygmy Rabbit |
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The Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow. The Pygmy Rabbit differs significantly from species within either the Lepus (hare) or Sylvilagus ...
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| x Sage Grouse |
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The Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) or Greater Sage-grouse, is the largest grouse in North America. Its range is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The Gunnison Sage-grouse was...
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| x Sage Sparrow |
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The Sage Sparrow (Amphispiza belli) is a medium-sized sparrow of the western United States and northwestern Mexico.
Sage Sparrows are indeed often tied to sagebrush habitats, although they can also be found in brushy stands of saltbush, chamise, and...
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| x Sage Thrasher |
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The Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus, is a medium-sized passerine bird from the family Mimidae, which also includes mockingbirds, tremblers and New World catbirds. It is the only member of the genus Oreoscoptes. This seems less close to the...
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| x Desert sucker |
The desert sucker, Catostomus clarkii, is a freshwater species of fish in the sucker family that lives in the Great Basin and the Colorado River basin.
Desert suckers are bi-colored; the back and upper sides are darker, olive-brown to dark green,...
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| x Black toad |
The black toad (Bufo exsul), also known as the Inyo toad or Deep Springs black toad, is a true toad that lives only in scattered oases in the Deep Springs Valley of Inyo County, California. In fact, its scientific name, Bufo exsul means "exiled toad...
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| x Lahontan cutthroat trout |
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Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi) is the largest subspecies of cutthroat trout, and the state fish of Nevada.
The Lahontan cutthroat is native to the drainages of the Truckee River, Humboldt River, Carson River, Walker River,...
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| x Paiute cutthroat trout |
Paiute cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki seleniris) is a subspecies of cutthroat trout native only to Silver King Creek, a headwater tributary of the Carson River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, U.S.A. The Carson River lies within...
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| x Redband trout |
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Redband trout is a fish name that may be a synonym for the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, but is also used more narrowly for two subspecies with well-defined geographical distributions in the United States: the Columbia River redband trout,...
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| x White River spinedace |
The White River spinedace, Lepidomeda albivallis, is a critically endangered cyprinid fish of Nevada, occurring only in the White River in the southeastern part of the state.
This spindace ranges from green to olive above, a brassy silver on the...
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| x White River springfish |
The White River springfish Crenichthys baileyi, is a rare goodeid fish of the Great Basin of western North America, native to various warm springs in the White River drainage of eastern Nevada.
Each side has two rows of dark blotches. The pelvic...
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