Sentence examples for terrestrial group from inspiring English sources

Then Marduk divided the gods into a celestial and a terrestrial group, assigned them their tasks in the cosmos, and allotted them their stipends.

In contrast, the other endemic genus Blanfordia is the sole terrestrial group within Pomatiopsidae [ 11].

This result strongly supported (p < 0.001) [ 32] the monophyly of the terrestrial group and the paraphyly of the previously defined genus Cercopithecus.

These results suggest that the terrestrial group diverged after Allenopithecus but before the separation of Miopithecus from the arboreal Cercopithecus species (p < 0.01).

Unfortunately, we did not identify enough informative markers to gain significant support for the relationships between taxa within the terrestrial group.

The Enoplia (a primarily marine group) and Dorylaimia (a terrestrial group) represent very different life histories-if Dorylaimids were to be confirmed as the earliest branching lineage, it may imply a terrestrial origin for the phylum [ 21], and challenge the widely held view that nematodes first arose in marine environments.

Terrestrial groups include tortoises, ground-dwelling snakes, and many genera of lizards.

In some cases semiaquatic mammals are relatively unmodified representatives of otherwise terrestrial groups (otters, muskrats, and water shrews, for example).

Internal fertilization is common in the more advanced marine species but mandatory in the freshwater and terrestrial groups.

Notable terrestrial groups, such as the pelycosaurs (fin-backed reptiles), Moschops (a massive mammal-like reptile), and numerous families of insects also met their demise.

The fourth episode of mass extinction occurred at the end of the Triassic, drastically reducing some marine and terrestrial groups, such as ammonoids, mammal-like reptiles, and primitive amphibians, but not affecting others.