Mosquitoes

• Body symmetry

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
  • Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry

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  bilaterally symmetric

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
  • Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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• cellularity

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
  • Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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  multicellular

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
  • Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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• developmental mode

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
  • Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature

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  holometabolous

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
  • Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.

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• first appearance

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
  • Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.

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  99.59999999999999 million years ago
• geographic distribution includes

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
  • Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.

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  Mozambique

  • URI: https://www.geonames.org/1036973

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• habitat

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
  • Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x

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  tropical

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000204
  • Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl

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• habitat

  • URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
  • Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
  • Comment: Example: "oak savanna", "pre-cordilleran steppe"

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  marine benthic

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000024
  • Definition: The marine benthic biome (benthic meaning 'bottom') encompasses the seafloor and includes such areas as shores, littoral or intertidal areas, marine coral reefs, and the deep seabed.

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• number of fossil occurrences

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
  • Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.

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  59
• number of public records in bold

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
  • Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)

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  32701
• trophic guild

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
  • Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)

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  hematophage

  • URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q939099
  • Definition: practice by certain animals of feeding on blood
  • Comment: synonym: sanguivory

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• type specimen repository

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
  • Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).

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  Naturalis
• water depth

  • URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
  • Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.

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  16.1 m

mosquitoes includes 43 children:

• Ayurakitia
• Bironella
• Borichinda
• Chagasia
• Coquillettidia
• Culex
• Haemagogus
• Isostomyia
• Johnbelkinia
• Kimia
• Limatus
• Lutzia
• Maorigoeldia
• Mimomyia
• Onirion
• Sabethes
• Topomyia
• Toxorhynchites (mosquito hawks)
• Trichoprosopon
• Wyeomyia
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