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  • Record-setting heat this summer and lack of rain have halted the flow on this part of the Brazos, and Notropis buccula and Notropis oxyrhynchus have been stuck in isolated pools.

    Scientists Fish for Way to Save Shiners Ana Campoy 2011

  • Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides.

    Southland temperate forests 2007

  • She recovered all the parts of the body excepting one only, which the oxyrhynchus had greedily devoured; [*] and with the help of her sister Nephthys, her son Horus, Anubis, and Thot, she joined together and embalmed them, and made of this collection of his remains an imperishable mummy, capable of sustaining for ever the soul of a god.

    History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881

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