Marine Toad Bungarus candidus Malayan Krait Bungarus fasciatus Banded Krait Buphagus erythrorhyncus & Buphagus africanus Oxpecker Buteo Hawk Buteo buteo Common Buzzard Buteo lagopus Rough-Legged Hawk (Rough-Legged Buzzard) Buteo regalis Ferruginous Hawk Buteo swainsoni Swainson’s Hawk Butorides virescen...
Over half of the species lacking barcodes had a barcoded congener such that an OTU could be assigned to a genus, but the remainder of species lacking barcodes could at best be assigned to family or order – a clear loss of biodiversity information even though richness can be assessed from ...
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In recent decades, invasive herpetofauna (i.e. amphibians and reptiles), have gained great interest on various platforms (e.g. social media) due to the numerous impacts they cause and the interest they generate from a wide range of sectors of society12. These impacts are present in different...
Sponges are sessile, filter feeding marine animals and are richest sources of pharmacologically active compounds. Most of them are secondary metabolites which are produced in associations to symbiotic microorganisms. Sponges use these bioactive components against various foreign invaders such as viruses, bac...
By species count, actinopterygians dominate the vertebrates, and they comprise nearly 99% of the over 30,000 species of fish.[2] They are ubiquitous throughout freshwater and marine environments from the deep sea to the highest mountain streams. Extant species can range in size from Paedocypris...
The ‘Out of India’ hypothesis is often invoked to explain patterns of distribution among Southeast Asian taxa. According to this hypothesis, Southeast Asian taxa originated in Gondwana, diverged from their Gondwanan relatives when the Indian subcontine