What's the difference between cotinga and neotropical?
Cotinga
Definition:
(n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.
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Neotropical
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.
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(1) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
(2) Means of locomotion of 48 species of larval mosquitoes was observed using cinematography in Panama, Honduras and neotropical Mexico.
(3) The blood parasites of 35555 birds of 955 species (80 families) occurring in the Neotropics formed the basis for the comparisons.
(4) A fourteen-membered lactone, (R)-(Z,E)-9,11-octadecadien-13-olide, was isolated from extruded abdominal glands of a Neotropical, nymphalid butterfly.
(5) Correlated with the breakup of the austral landmasses (Gondwanaland) of the Neotropical and Australian regions from the Antarctic continent, the age of this host-parasite community is estimated to be between 60 and 70 million years old.
(6) Two lots of 20 young male guinea pigs were inoculated subcutaneously in the tarsi with 10(4) amastigotes of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis or L. b. guyanensis to study the susceptibility of this Neotropical hystricomorph rodent the autochthonous parasites.
(7) Based on the data from the survey of parasites of mammals from throughout Bolivia and from the phylogenetic analysis of the cestodes, we urge the planners of biodiversity preserves in the neotropics to consider the Yungas of Bolivia as a region that supports an ancient ecological community worthy of consideration as a biopreserve.
(8) Since no other neotropical primate has amplified CgoA sequences, the data suggest that the ancestor of Callimico separated from the other neotropical primates at least 30 million years ago.
(9) The neotropical cotton-top marmoset (Saguinus oedipus) is a New World primate known to have markedly increased total and free plasma cortisol concentrations when compared with Old World primates including man.
(10) The Callitrichidae contains four genera that embrace up to 50 species and subspecies found in neotropical habitats.
(11) The parthenogenetic snails, Thiara granifera and T. (= Melanoides) tuberculata, were introduced to the Neotropical area in recent decades.
(12) Certain species of Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia transmit dermal leishmaniasis in large areas of the palaearctic and neotropical regions.
(13) C. insignis is a neotropical form which extends from northern Florida through the Caribbean region and much of South America.
(14) Synotpic keys to the 87 genera of chiggers in the Western Hemisphere (Nearctic and Neotropical regions) as well as illustrations to the terminology employed, are presented.
(15) Homobatrachotoxin is a member of a class of compounds collectively called batrachotoxins that were previously considered to be restricted to neotropical poison-dart frogs of the genus Phyllobates.
(16) Saurian malaria species which produce schizonts smaller than normal erythrocyte nuclei, with 4-8 merozoietes and gametocytes equal to or smaller than erythrocyte nuclei in size, parasitizing hosts of the lizard families Scincidae, Iguanidae and Teiidae in the Neotropics are considered to be Plasmodium minasense Carini and Rudolph, 1912.
(17) A total of 80 Neotropical bats of five species was inoculated with one of four strains of Venezuelan encephalitis (VE) virus.
(18) A study was carried out in order to determined the larval population density of Culex nigripalpus, vector of different parasitic and viral diseases in the neotropical region.
(19) Rhodnius prolixus, a neotropical species, was not susceptible to infection.
(20) The Neotropical fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, occurs throughout Latin America and on many islands in the Caribbean.