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Ornithoptera richmondia figs. 1 and 2 The plate accompanied Gray's original description. The female Ornithoptera euphorion below (fig. 3) is much larger.. O. richmondia has never received an official IUCN classification (Collins & Morris, 1985), however Sands & Scott (1997) regarded it to satisfy the "vulnerable" category because of habitat loss across its former range.
genus: Ornithoptera. subgenus: Aetheoptera. Ornithoptera victoriae – Queen Victoria's birdwing; subgenus: Ornithoptera. Ornithoptera aesacus – Obi Island birdwing; Ornithoptera croesus – Wallace's golden birdwing; Ornithoptera euphorion – Cairns birdwing; Ornithoptera priamus – common green birdwing; Ornithoptera richmondia ...
Ornithoptera is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia; except for Ornithoptera richmondia, which may be found in far northeastern New South Wales, Australia, therefore the southernmost distribution of birdwings.
The birdwings genus Ornithoptera comprises some of the largest and most beautiful butterflies in the World. The genus is distributed over southern parts of Asia to Australia.
The giant sunfish or bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini), [3] (also known as the Ramsay's sunfish, southern sunfish, southern ocean sunfish, short sunfish or bump-head sunfish in various parts of the world), [4] is a fish belonging to the family Molidae. It is closely related to the more widely known Mola mola, and is found in the Southern ...
The pelagic food web, showing the central involvement of marine microorganisms in how the ocean imports nutrients from and then exports them back to the atmosphere and ocean floor. A marine food web is a food web of marine life. At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton.
Since 1990, over 100 countries have allowed people to eat up to 87 marine mammal species, including Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins [1] Marine mammals are a food source in many countries around the world. Historically, they were hunted by coastal people, and in the case of aboriginal whaling, still are.
Marine hatchetfishes or deep-sea hatchetfishes are small deep-sea mesopelagic ray-finned fish of the stomiiform subfamily Sternoptychinae.They should not be confused with the freshwater hatchetfishes, which are not particularly closely related Teleostei in the characiform family Gasteropelecidae.