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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 ]
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.
The genus Bucephalus was based on the earliest known bucephalid, B. polymorphus Baer (1827), initially described from a cercaria larva. Siebold (1848) believed that the adult bucephalid he named Gasterostomum fimbriatum represented an adult form of the same bucephalid, but this identity has never been proved.
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 ...
Heliocopris bucephalus Balthasar, 1963 Heliocopris bucephalus Chandra, 2005 Heliocopris bucephalus , commonly known as the Elephant dung beetle , [ 1 ] is a species of dung beetle found in India , [ 2 ] Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Myanmar , Malay Peninsula , Java , Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia .
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Vietnam.The avifauna of Vietnam include a total of 963 species, of which 18 are endemic, and 5 have been introduced.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
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
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus is an 1826 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from ancient history when Alexander the Great tamed his famous warhorse Bucephalus. On the right of the picture are Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon and mother Olympias.