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Merops, king of Anthemousia, who fought against Sithon of Thrace for the hand of the latter's daughter Pallene and was killed. [12] Merops, whose daughter Epione was the wife of Asclepius. [13] Merops, son of Hyas, who was the first to make people reassemble in settlements after the great deluge. [14]
Merops is a large genus of bee-eaters, a group of birds in the family Meropidae, native to Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The members of this family are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers.
The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It breeds in southern and central Europe , northern and southern Africa, and western Asia. Except for the resident southern African population, the species is strongly migratory , wintering in tropical Africa. [ 1 ]
Merops species such as the white-fronted bee-eater usually have a black bar through the eye. The bee-eaters are morphologically a fairly uniform group. They share many features with related Coraciiformes such as the kingfishers and rollers, being large-headed (although less so than their relatives), short-necked, brightly plumaged and short-legged.
The cinnamon-chested bee-eater (Merops oreobates) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is mainly native to the Albertine Rift montane forests and the East African montane forests . [ 1 ]
Clymene, another Oceanid, was given as the wife to King Merops of Aethiopia and was, by Helios, the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades. [11] Others include: Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
MEROPS is an online database for peptidases (also known as proteases, proteinases and proteolytic enzymes) and their inhibitors. [2] The classification scheme for peptidases was published by Rawlings & Barrett in 1993, [ 3 ] and that for protein inhibitors by Rawlings et al. in 2004. [ 4 ]
The blue-cheeked bee-eater (Merops persicus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and persicus is Latin for "Persian". [2] It breeds in Northern Africa, and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India.