Sentence examples for extant described from inspiring English sources

The insects comprise the majority of extant described species.

Commonly known as "bichirs", this clade includes 12 extant described species (as well as multiple subspecies) that inhabit freshwater rivers and lakes of tropical Africa [ 10].

This finding is promising, but the extant literature described above suggests that students generally do not possess a strong command of evolutionary concepts when they enter college.

Although our study is limited to decapods, and the sampling is limited to a small proportion of the entire order (5.4% of the 17635 extant species described), it is unlikely that the general patterns observed have been biased by our sampling or taxonomic coverage.

Materials (Yamada 001002) and methods for plastic sections and SEM micrograph of Trimenia moorei (extant) were described previously [ 7].

Net diversification rate (the net result of speciation and extinction for each taxon) is represented by the estimated number of extant species described per taxon (here referred to as "clade size").

Australia's oldest extant mosque, once described as "the Afghan chapel", was built in Adelaide in 1888-1889.

More than 98% of the 150,000 described extant species of Lepidoptera belong to the Ditrysia, a monophyletic lineage that evolved during the last 110 million years [2].

So far about 7,000 extant species are described [ 2].

In total, the 688 species represented approximately 10% of the described extant anuran species [ 25].

The Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) belongs to the subfamily Lamiinae in the beetle family Cerambycidae (e.g., cerambycids or longhorned beetles; >30,000 described extant species) [ 23].