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Bucephalus (/ b juː. ˈ s ɛ . f ə . l ə s / ; Ancient Greek : Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς , romanized : Būcephắlās ; c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) or Bucephalas , was the horse of Alexander the Great , and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity . [ 1 ]
Bucephalus (lit. ' ox head ' ) is the genus name for many trematode flatworms that are parasites of molluscs and fish . Like other Bucephalidae , they are found in fish both as adults and as metacercariae .
Bucephalus polymorphus requires three hosts. Dreissena polymorpha , a small freshwater mussel, is the first intermediate host parasitized by the hatching miracidium . Within the visceral mass of Dreissena , the miracidium transforms into a mother (primary) sporocyst .
The name Bucephalus meaning "ox head" was originally applied to the genus Bucephalus because of the horn-like appearance of the forked tail (furcae) of its cercaria larva. By what Manter calls a "curious circumstance", horns are also suggested by the long tentacles of adult worms. [2] Most trematodes have several distinct developmental stages ...
Arrian also states that Bucephalus, being around thirty years old, died unwounded of old age. [12] As both Diodorus and Curtius Rufus separate the foundation of the cities from their naming, it is probable that the horse only died after Alexander's eastward departure, and that the settlements were named upon Alexander's return to the region.
The name Bucephalus, meaning "ox head", was originally applied to the genus Bucephalus because of the horn-like appearance of the forked tail (furcae) of its cercaria larva. By what Manter calls a "curious circumstance", horns are also suggested by the long tentacles of adult worms.
Bucephalus Bouncing Ball (song), a song from the 1997 album "Come To Daddy" by Aphex Twin; HMS Bucephalus, an early 19th-century English naval vessel — see also Invasion of Java (1811). The Crystal Bucephalus, an original 1994 Doctor Who novel written by Craig Hinton; BTR-4 "Bucephalus", Ukrainian armored troop carrier
Bucephalus mytili is a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda. [1] It is a parasite of fish and a parasitic castrator of the mussel Mytilus edulis, where it destroys the mussel's gonads and causes the mussel to grow much larger than normal. [2] The cercaria of B. mytili were described in 1935 occurring in Mytilus edulis in Wales.