Heinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretations, as also a chapter critiquing the work.
Dr Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a trained medical doctor and a German entomologist.
The black-rumped waxbill is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southern Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,000,000 km2.
The Bornean ground cuckoo is a large terrestrial species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is, as suggested by its common name, endemic to the island of Borneo, being found in the sections belonging to Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is restricted to humid forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was formerly considered conspecific with the Sumatran ground cuckoo.
Lucinidae, common name hatchet shells, is a family of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs.
Halydaia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Plicatula is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs, known commonly as kitten's paws or kittenpaws in the family Plicatulidae.
Codakia orbicularis, or the tiger lucine, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Florida to the West Indies.
Crassostrea ingens is a species of fossil oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae, the oyster. This species lived during the Pliocene. Fossils have been found in New Zealand shallow-water limestone and shellbeds. Locations include the Wairarapa, Whanganui basin, Gisborne district, North Canterbury, and Hawke's Bay.
Cataglyphis iberica is a species of desert ant found in the Iberian Peninsula. It was described by Carlo Emery in 1906.
Johann Stephan Capieux was a German illustrator of Huguenot origin. He received his artistic training at the Leipzig Art Academy under Adam Friedrich Oeser. Capieux provided illustrations for
The Besano Formation is a geological formation in the southern Alps of northwestern Italy and southern Switzerland. This formation, a thin but fossiliferous succession of dolomite and black shale, is famous for its preservation of Middle Triassic (Anisian–Ladinian) marine life including fish and aquatic reptiles. It is exposed in the Monte San Giorgio and Besano area. It is among the formations responsible for the area being designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In Switzerland, it is also known as the Grenzbitumenzone. The Anisian-Ladinian boundary lies in the upper part of the Besano Formation.
Phacoides is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.
Polititapes aureus is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Veneridae.
Tapes is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae.
Chamelea striatula, the striped venus clam, is a marine bivalve mollusc of the family Veneridae which inhabits the northern shores of Europe.
Jactellina clathrata, commonly known as the shiborizakura tellin, is a species of tellinid, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Tellinidae.
