Adanson


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(Ad'an-sohn[h]),
Michel, French naturalist, 1727-1806. See: adansonian classification.
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Parasites infecting the cultured oyster Crassostrea gasar (Adanson, 1757) in northeast Brazil.
Adanson), or from plants (probably under bark): Lecythis corrugata (Poiteau), Persea borbonia (L.), Pouteria egregia (Sandwith), Touliciapulvinata (Radlkofer), and Vismia guianensis (Aublet).
Abordo la dimension internacional del asunto citando exploradores destacados en la publicacion de floras exoticas: Adanson (Senegal), Hasselquist (Palestina), Forsskal (Arabia), Gunner (Noruega) y Koenig (Indias Orientales).
Caiophora se diferencia de Loasa Adanson, el genero mas afin de la tribu Loaseae Urb.
Anomalocardia flexuosa (Linnaeus, 1767)], brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758), and the mangrove oysters Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding, 1828) and Crassostrea gasar (Adanson, 1757) [syn.
The development of oyster farming in Brazil has involved three species of the genus Crassostrea: the native oyster Crassostrea rhizophorae (Guilding, 1828), the "mangrove oyster" Crassostrea gasar (Adanson, 1757) and the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793).
Her earliest extant works are perhaps the nineteen ambitious etchings that illustrate Michel Adanson's Histoire naturelle du Senegal: Coquillages, published in 1757.
Talavera, S.--1980--El genero Tolpis Adanson en Andalucia occidental--Lagascalia 9(2): 229-231.
Melymaera, a new plant bug genus (Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae) inhabiting manzanita, Arctostaphylos Adanson (Ericaceae).