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Synthliboramphus is from
Ancient Gr**** sunthlibo, "to compress", and
rhamphos, "bill". The
English name "Murrelet" is a
diminutive of "murre", a word...
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North Pacific.
Brachyramphus is from
Ancient Gr**** brakhus, "short", and
rhamphos, "bill". In
English the
species are
named as "murrelets"; this is a diminutive...
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Rhampholeon (from Gr****: ῥάμφος
rhamphos, 'bird's bill' and Gr****: λέον leōn, 'lion') is a
genus of
small chameleons,
commonly known as
pygmy chameleons...
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genus name
Ramphocaenus means "unusual beak", from the
Ancient Gr****
rhamphos (ῥάµϕος, "beak") and cænos (καινός, "strange"). The
specific epithet combines...
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Rhamphorhynchus (/ˌræmfəˈrɪŋkəs/, from
Ancient Gr****
rhamphos meaning "beak" and
rhynchus meaning "snout") is a
genus of long-tailed
pterosaurs in the...
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Rhamphinion (meaning "beak nape"; Gr****
rhamphos, "beak" is a
common part of "rhamphorhynchoid" names, and the
remains of this
animal came from the rear...
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specific epithet is
derived from the
Ancient Gr****
words melano- 'black' and
rhamphos 'beak'. It is
placed in the
family known as the mud-nest
builders or Corcoracidae...
- σάρξ (sarx, "flesh", the
combining form of
which is σαρκο-) and ῥάμφος (
rhamphos, "crooked beak of bird of prey"). The
genus name is
often misspelled as...
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genus name
combines Ancient Gr**** sunthlibō
meaning "to compress" with
rhamphos meaning "bill". The
specific epithet antiquus is
Latin meaning "ancient"...
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Rhamphichthys (
Rhamphos = Gr**** for beak and
Ichthys = Gr**** for fish) is a
genus of fish that
includes the
South American sand knifefish.
These fish are...
