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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.
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 ...
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 sources are however unclear on the details of the foundation and naming of the cities. Arrian separates the clauses detailing the location and naming of the cities, so that although the reader knows that one of the two cities was called Nikaia and one named Boukephala, it is unclear which name corresponds to which city.
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.
Bucephala may refer to: . Bucephala, the goldeneye, a duck genus; Bucephala is the name of at least two cities: Bucephala, or Alexandria Bucephalus, a city in Punjab founded by Alexander the Great and named in honor of his horse, Bucephalus