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semifossorial
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/semifossorial
Definition:
organism that is adapted to digging and life underground but also spends a considerable amount of its life above ground.
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extant
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/extant
Definition:
This taxon is still in existence, as opposed to extinct.
Attribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extant_taxon
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pliocene epoch
URI:
http://resource.geosciml.org/classifier/ics/ischart/Pliocene
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International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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5.333 million years ago
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terrestrial
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A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.
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holocene epoch
URI:
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International Chronostratigraphic Chart: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
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actively mobile
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Definition:
uses self-propelled locomotion to change location on a regular basis
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19
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viviparous
URI:
http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Viviparous
Definition:
1) Producing live offspring from within the body of the parent (Lincoln et al., 1998). 2) Development of an embryo within the body of the parent, in part, resources passing directly from parent to embryo (Barnes et al., 2006).
Attribution:
Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P., 1998. A dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University of Press. Barnes R.S.K., Calow P., Olive P.J.W., Golding, D.W, and Spicer, J.I. 2006. The invertebrates: a new synthesis, Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd. http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:Viviparous
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herbivore
URI:
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Definition:
animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material
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frugivore
URI:
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1470764
Definition:
organism that eats fruit.
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