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  • The peninsula also has 17 genera and 30 species of reptiles, one of them locally endemic, as well as stable populations of iguanas (Cyclura nubila).

    Cuban dry forests 2008

  • I grant, — caput inter nubila condunt, (hide their heads in the clouds); but belli pusilli little men are pretty:

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Trust is also conducting research programs assessing the status of the threatened rock iguana (Cyclura nubila caymanensis) and the native parrots.

    Cayman Islands xeric scrub 2007

  • Notable of these are three subspecies of iguana (Cyclura nubila), numerous anoles (Anolis spp.), and several subspecies of the Cayman islands dwarf boa (Trophidopsis caymensis).

    Cayman Islands dry forests 2007

  • The Trust owns more than 310 hectares (ha) of natural woodland and bluff habitat on Grand Cayman and has initiated a captive breeding program for the blue Grand Cayman iguana (Cyclura nubila lewisi), which is listed as endangered by the USFWS.

    Cayman Islands xeric scrub 2007

  • Causas hujus incrementi varias prodidere; sed maxime probabiles duas: Etefiarum eo tempore ex adverso flantium repercussum, ultro in ora acto mari: aut imbres Æthiopiæ æstivos, iisdem Etesiis nubila illò ferentibus ex reliquo orbe.

    The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

  • Deficient they are no doubt, consisting most of fables and fragments; but the deficience cannot be holpen; for antiquity is like fame, caput inter nubila condit, her head is muffled from our sight.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Rost nubila Phoebus; "after clouds, comes sunshine."

    She and I, Volume 1

  • 'Tuque o, pelagi cui maior aperti fama, Caledonius postquam tua carbasa vexit oceanus Phrygios prius indignatus Iulos, eripe me populis et habenti nubila terrae, sancte pater, veterumque fave veneranda canenti facta virum.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Macte pio gemitu! dabimus solatia dignis luctibus Aoniasque tuo sacrabimus ultro inferias, Etrusce, seni! tu largus Eoa germina, tu messis Cilicumque Arabumque superbas merge rogis; ferat ignis opes heredis et alto35 aggere missuri nitido pia nubila caelo stipentur cineres: nos non arsura feremus munera, uenturosque tuus durabit in annos me monstrante dolor. neque enim mihi flere parentem ignotum; similis gemui proiectus ad ignis.

    To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father 1912

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