" in the singular or "spp." in the plural in place of the specific epithet: for example, "Canis" sp. This commonly occurs in the following types of situation: * The authors are confident that some individuals belong to a particular genus but are not sure to which exact species they ...
Books and articles sometimes intentionally do not identify species fully and use the abbreviation "sp." in the singular or "spp." in the plural in place of the specific epithet: for example, Canis sp. This commonly occurs in the following types of situations: * The authors are confident tha...
Badgers are actually not a singular species, but a collection of 11 species found in the family Mustelidae. The name badger, traditionally used to only be applied to one species, the European badger; however, within the family Mustelidae there are 4 subfamilies of badger: Helictindinae, Meli...
Here we describe a new species of free-living Megalomyrmex ant: Megalomyrmex peetersi sp. n. In addition, we identify its singular venom alkaloid (trans-2-butyl-5-heptylpyrrolidine) and elucidate the antibiotic and insecticidal functions of its venom. Our results show that Megalomyrmex peetersi...