Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful

Index of Common Names

Index of Common Names Aardvark, African, 142 Acacia catclaw, 107 whistling-thorn, 108 Ant animal-domesticating, 226–227 army, 236 farming, 223–225, 227 fire, 66 forest, 212 gliding, 22 leaf-cutter, 224–225 velvet, 48 Anteater great scaly, 52 South American giant, 142, 158–159, 162, 166 Aphid, 226–227, 230 Armadillo, 29 Auklet, crested, 64 Aye-aye, 141 Bat greater bulldog, 165 Mexican long-tongued, 147 short-nosed fruit, 217 tent-making, 217 Bayonet, Spanish, 107 Bear, polar, 8, 211 Beaver, Canadian, 161, 163, 218, 220–221 Beetle ambrosia, 223, 225–226, 230 blister, 64 bombardier, 66 fire, 37 long-horned, 66 Bison, 159–160, 166 Bladderwort, 138 Bonobo, 211–212 Bowerbird, 217–218 Bug, flat, 37 Burdock, greater, 127 Butterfly, monarch, 64, 234 Butterwort, 138 Cactus, 113–114 Camel dromedary, 57–58, 113 western, 161–162 Cassowary, 152–154 Cat European wild, 35, 43, 158–159, 166 false saber-tooth, 42–44, 160, 162 marsupial, 158–159 true saber-tooth, 42–44, 160, 162 Catfish, African electric, 39, 49 Centaur, 25–26, 253 Chicken, common domestic, 50 Chimpanzee, 211–212, 241 Chiton, rock, 67 Civet, palm, 36, 46 Coca, 112 Cockroach, 52, 197 Coffee, 112 Condor, California, 145 Corkscrew, 138 Cormorant, flightless, 155 Coruro, Chilean, 29, 162 Cow, common domestic, 57, 181, 193, 227 Crab hermit, 52, 213 horseshoe, 193 Crayfish, red swamp, 52 Cricket, mole, 28 Crocodile gavialid, 167 Nile, 34, 52 Crow, New Caledonian, 211 Deer, red, 58, 62, 158, 160, 166 Dinosaur (excluding avian dinosaurs) allosaur, 164, 166 alvarezsaur, 144, 166 ankylosaur, 62–64, 164, 166 304 Index of Common Names ceratopsid, 56–57, 59, 164, 166 coelophysid, 164, 166, 236 coelurosaur, 78, 148 dromaeosaur, 43, 148, 236 fabrosaur, 24 hadrosaur, 56–57, 164–166 herrerasaur, 24, 77 hypsilophodont, 164–166 maiasaur, 234 ornithomimosaur, 153 oviraptor, 50 pachycephalosaur, 164, 167 psittacosaur, 51, 59 sauropod, 51, 166, 234 spinosaur, 164, 167 therizinosaur, 164, 167 troodontid, 43, 148, 164, 166 velociraptor, 164, 166 Dodder, 139 Dodo, 154 Dolphin, bottlenose, 6, 13, 36, 42, 212, 234, 238–241 Dragon Komodo, 28 mythical, 19–20, 25 Dragonfly, 77, 103, 140, 253 Duck Aukland Island teal, 155 steamer, 155 wood, 59 Duckbill platypus, 39, 59, 66 Eagle, 213 Earthworm, common, 52, 67 Echidna, 39, 64, 143 Eel electric, 49 European, 15 Elderberry, black, 108 Elephant African, 166, 233, 241 Asian, 212, 238–239 Emu, 152–154 Fern European water-clover, 116 giant water, 116 Finch, woodpecker, 141, 212 Firefly, 64 Fish flying Gunnard, 21 puffer, 64 rabbit, 66 red lion, 65 scorpion, 65 stickleback, 195–196 stone, 65 toad, 66 weever, 66 Flying lemur, 20 Flying squirrel marsupial, 158–159 scaly-tailed, 20 true, 20, 158–159 Fox, red, 35 Frog Costa Rican flying tree, 21 Guinea shovel-snout, 29 poison arrow, 64 tailed, 31, 83 tree, 31 Wallace’s flying tree, 21 Gecko flying, 21 helmeted, 34 Geosaur, 16 Goat, domestic, 61, 167 Gopher, pocket, 29, 162 Gorilla, 211, 213, 240–241 Grass cogon, 107 Johnson, 108 Grog, 263 Hagfish, 15 Hawthorn, cockspur, 107 Hedgehog, European, 64, 198 Hellebore, stinking, 120 Heron, 213 Herring, Atlantic, 191 Hippopotamus, 57–58, 61 Honeybee, 66, 228–230, 234 Honeycreeper akiapola’au, 140 ‘i’iwi, 147 red-legged, 147 Honeyeater, 146 Horse, modern, 57, 62, 160, 162 Human modern, 23, 179, 193–194, 198, 209–212, 218, 220–225, 227, 237–239, 241–242 Neanderthal, 241–242 Hummingbird, 145–146 Hydrangea, 112 Hyrax, yellow-spotted, 59 Ichthyosaur, 13, 167, 262, 272 Jellyfish box, 70 Portuguese man-of-war, 49 Kagu, 154 Kangaroo, red, 24, 59, 158, 160 Dinosaur (cont.) Index of Common Names 305 Kiwi, 152–154, 156 Krill, Antarctic, 234 Lamprey, sea, 15, 67, 197 Leopard, snow, 8 Lily, corpse, 120 Lion African, 35, 158–159, 166, 237 marsupial, 158–159 Lizard brown basilisk, 24 desert horned, 143 Florida worm, 28 flying, 20 legless, 28, 34 night, 34 skink, 91 thorny devil, 143–144 Locust, desert, 233 Loon, red-throated, 50 Loris, slow, 35 Lungfish Queensland, 56 South American, 16 Lynx, North American bay, 35 Magpie, 209, 238–239 Mammoth, 237 Manatee African, 17, 61 Florida, 74 Mantidfly, green, 26, 253 Marijuana, 112 Martin, 218 Mastodon, 162 Millipede common, 66 flat-backed, 66 Mistletoe, dwarf, 127 Mole Cape golden, 29, 157 European, 29, 153–154, 158 southern marsupial, 29, 158 Monkey Barbary macaque, 240 capuchin, 211, 240 colobus, 57–58...