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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In conchology, a genus of basommatophorous pulmonate gastropods of the family Auriculidæ.

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Examples

  • Reciprocal allogrooming in impala, Aepyceros melampus.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Also present are Japanese hare Lepus brachyurus angustidens, Japanese squirrel Sciurus lis, small Japanese flying squirrel Pteromys momonga, Japanese giant flying squirrel Petaurista leucogenys, Japanese dormouse Glirulus japonicus (EN), raccoon dog Nyctereutes procyonoides, Japanese fox Vulpes vulpes japonica, Japanese marten Martes melampus, ermine Mustela ermina, Siberian weasel Mustela sibirica and Eurasian badger Mele meles.

    Shirakami-sanchi (Shirakami mountains), Japan 2009

  • In the woodlands are warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, sitatunga T. spekei, grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, impala Aepyceros melampus and Kirk's dikdik Madoqua kirkii.

    Serengeti National Park, Tanzania 2008

  • Smaller antelope of the ecoregion include bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola), and impala (Aepyceros melampus).

    Eastern Miombo woodlands 2007

  • The Japanese sable is threatened by breeding with the Japanese marten (Martes melampus), which was introduced to Hokkaido.

    Hokkaido montane conifer forests 2007

  • (Antelope melampus), waterbuck, and wild hogs, with the spoor of buffaloes and elephants.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • I bagged a couple of antelopes, a kudu (A. strepsiceros) with fine twisting horns, and a pallah-buck (A. melampus), a reddish-brown animal, standing about three and a half feet, with broad posteriors.

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • Game becomes more abundant; near our wooding-places we see herds of zebras, both Burchell's and the mountain variety, pallahs (_Antelope melampus_), waterbuck, and wild hogs, with the spoor of buffaloes and elephants.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843

  • Other species found within the ecoregion are Hartmann's mountain zebras (Equus zebra hartmannae EN), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros LR), springboks (Antidorcas marsupialis LR), gemsboks (Oryx gazella LR), Damara dik-diks (Madoqua kirkii) and black-faced impalas (Aepyceros melampus petersi VU).

    Kaokoveld desert 2008

  • Greater kudu (T. strepsiceros), hartbeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), steenbok (Aepyceros melampus), sable (Hippotragus niger) and roan antelope (H. equinus) are found in fewer numbers, generally preferring the woodland margins of inundated grasslands.

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

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