Composition of Scientific Words

By D. Nicolson, Roland Brown. 2000

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Revision of the genus Chrysaora Peron & Lesueur, 1810 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) (2010, background): “, Brown, C.W., Hood, R.R., Purcell, J.E., Gross, T.F., Matanoski, J.C., Bannon, R.O. & Setzler-Hamilton, E.M. (2007) Predicting the distribution of the scyphomedusa Chrysaora quinquecirrha in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 329, 99–113. Delap, M.J. (1901) Notes on the rearing of Chry”
Marine Algae of the Northern Gulf of California: Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae (2010, background): “Algae usually forming clusters of long, hollow sacs, golden brown (darker when fertile), 8–15(–25) cm long, 0.8–1.5(–5.5) cm wide, arising from a compressed base attached to the substrate. Sacs flaccid and delicate, elongated and tapering toward base; hollow throughout; thin, 70–88(–110) μm thick. M”
A multigene phylogeny and timeline for Trichoptera (Insecta) (2020, unknown): “The word in derived from the Greek phryganon, referring to dry sticks, brushwood, or firewood, and the suffix -ides or -ites, meaning ‘having the nature of’ (Brown, 1956), an obvious reference to the little stick-like cases of some of these Trichoptera larvae.”