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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. [2] Most trematodes have several distinct developmental stages ...
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 .
Bucephala clangula Pair Female goldeneye with chicks. The common goldeneye or simply goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.
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 bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus) is a passerine bird of eastern Asia belonging to the shrike family Laniidae. It is 19–20 cm (approx. 7.48-7.9 inches) long. The male has a brown crown, white eyebrow and black mask. The back is grey-brown while the wings are dark with a white patch.
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