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Definition of M angustirostris

M angustirostris
Sea elephant Sea" el"e*phant (Zo["o]l.) A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris) occurs on the coast of Lower California, but is now nearly extinct.

Meaning of M angustirostris from wikipedia

- The northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal). It is a member of...
- related to Marmaronetta angustirostris. Wikispecies has information related to Marmaronetta angustirostris. Marmaronetta angustirostris in Field Guide: Birds...
- Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were hunted to the brink of extinction...
- of S. angustirostris (although the name antedates S. angustirostris). Until a 2011 reevaluation of the species by Phil R. Bell, S. angustirostris was not...
- known to range from sea level to as much as 2,600 m (8,500 ft) in the Moroccan High Atlas and 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains. Throughout...
- seal is about 40% heavier than a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), which is nearly twice the weight of a male walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)...
- Miller, M.; Johnston, C.M.; Smith, J.K. (1996). Fire Effects Information System. Diane Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-7881-4568-1. Nowak, R.M. (1999)....
- represent an intermediate stage between sloth bears and ancestral brown bears. M. theobaldi itself had teeth intermediate in size between sloth bears and other...
- ages. A fox's dentition, like all other canids, is I 3/3, C 1/1, PM 4/4, M 3/2 = 42. (Bat-eared foxes have six extra molars, totalling in 48 teeth.)...
- ISBN 978-1-118-94755-5. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Petersen, M. R., D. N. Weir, and M. H. ****. 1991. Birds of the Kilbuck and Ahklun Mountain Region...