Vocabulary

tardigrade (any animal of phylum Tardigrada); water bear

commensalism

Encheliophis sagamianus (species of pearlfish)

Holothuria decorata (species of sea cucumber)

reticulated python (Python reticulatus)

Neuroptera; order of insects with four membranous wings

neuropteran (any insect of order Neuroptera)

neuropterans

to grow taller (of people)

inocelliid snakefly (any insect of family Inocelliidae)

nymphalid (any butterfly of family Nymphalidae)

Asian comma butterfly (Polygonia c-aureum)

blue admiral (species of nymphalid butterfly, Kaniska canace)

both repellant and attractive at the same time; both cute and disgusting

phallic stage

anal stage

penis envy

castration anxiety

K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous period and the Tertiary period)

pelecypods (i.e. bivalves)

bivalves

mosasaurus

soldier fly (any fly of family Stratiomyidae, esp. species Stratiomys japonica)

placoderms (extinct fishes of class Placodermi)

stickleback (Gasterosteidae spp.)

Amur stickleback (Pungitius sinensis)

Gasterosteus microcephalus (species of stickleback)

blotched snakehead (Channa maculata)

northern snakehead (Channa argus)

hydrosphere

hydrospheric sciences

mesosphere

thermosphere

ionosphere

magnetosphere

trematodes (i.e. flukes)

trematode; fluke

lung fluke (Paragonimus westermani)

lung fluke (Paragonimus westermani)

sheep liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica)