AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-256d huggingface dataset:
keyhole limpet: marine limpet having a conical shell with an opening at the apex
ancylidae: freshwater gastropod
ancylus: type genus of the family Ancylidae: river limpet
river limpet: minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants
opisthobranchia: gastropods having the gills when present posterior to the heart and having no operculum: includes sea slugs; sea butterflies; sea hares
nudibranchia: comprising numerous marine gastropod mollusks lacking a shell in the adult state and usually having a body like a slug
sea slug: any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
aplysiidae: sea hares
aplysia: type genus of the family Aplysiidae
sea hare: naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles
hermissenda: genus of marine sea slugs
hermissenda crassicornis: a kind of sea slug
akeridae: bubble shells
haminoea: common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America
pulmonata: large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails
physidae: freshwater snails
genus physa: type genus of the Physidae; freshwater air-breathing snails
pectinibranchia: large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb
cypraeidae: family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries
cypraea: type genus of the family Cypraeidae: the typical cowries
cowrie: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
money cowrie: cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa
tiger cowrie: cowrie whose shell is used for ornament
amphineura: a class of Gastropoda
solenogastres: an order of Amphineura
solenogaster: deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle
polyplacophora: small class of marine mollusks comprising the chitons; sometimes considered an order of the subclass Amphineura
genus chiton: a genus of Polyplacophora
chiton: primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
byssus: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
bivalvia: oysters; clams; scallops; mussels
bivalve: marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
myaceae: clams
myacidae: soft-shell clams
mya: type genus of the family Myacidae
soft-shell clam: an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe
veneridae: hard-shell clams
venus: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
mercenaria: a genus of Veneridae
quahog: an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
littleneck: a young quahog
cherrystone: a half-grown quahog
solenidae: razor clams
ensis: razor clams
razor clam: marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell
tridacnidae: large marine hard-shell clams
tridacna: type genus of the family Tridacnidae: giant clams
giant clam: a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds
cardiidae: somewhat heart-shaped sand-burrowing bivalve mollusks
cardium: type genus of the family Cardiidae: cockles
edible cockle: common edible European cockle
ostreidae: oysters
ostrea: type genus of the family Ostreidae
bluepoint: small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island
japanese oyster: a large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay
crassostrea: Virginia oysters
virginia oyster: common edible oyster of Atlantic coast of North America
pteriidae: pearl oysters
pinctada: pearl oysters
pearl oyster: tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America; a major source of pearls
anomiidae: saddle oysters
anomia: type genus of the family Anomiidae: saddle oysters
saddle oyster: thin-shelled bivalve having the right valve deeply notched
placuna: windowpane oysters
window oyster: marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell
arcidae: ark shells
arca: type genus of the family Arcidae: ark shells and blood clams
mytilidae: marine mussels
mytilus: type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels
marine mussel: marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell; live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones
edible mussel: a mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks
freshwater mussel: bivalve mollusk abundant in rivers of central United States
unionidae: freshwater mussels found worldwide
unio: type genus of the family Unionidae
anodonta: thin-shelled freshwater mussels
dreissena: zebra mussels
zebra mussel: inch long mollusk imported accidentally from Europe; clogs utility inlet pipes and feeds on edible freshwater mussels
pectinidae: scallops
scallop: edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
genus pecten: type genus of the family Pectinidae: sea and bay scallops
bay scallop: a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America
sea scallop: a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America
teredinidae: shipworms
genus teredo: type genus of the family Teredinidae
shipworm: wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells
bankia: giant shipworms
giant northwest shipworm: giant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America
pholadidae: a family of Bivalvia
pholas: type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks
cephalopoda: octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus
cephalopod: marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
nautilidae: spiral-shelled cephalopods
genus nautilus: type genus and sole recent representative of the family Nautilidae
chambered nautilus: cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
dibranchiata: comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)
dibranchiate: cephalopods having two gills
octopoda: octopuses and paper nautilus
octopodidae: a family of Octopoda
genus octopus: type genus of the family Octopodidae
octopus: bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
argonautidae: represented solely by the genus Argonauta
argonauta: type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus
paper nautilus: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
decapoda: squids and cuttlefishes
genus loligo: squids
genus ommastrephes: a genus of Decapoda
genus architeuthis: giant squid
architeuthis: largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long)
sepiidae: true cuttlefishes
sepia: type genus of the Sepiidae
cuttlefish: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
spirulidae: coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
genus spirula: genus of small cephalopods with many-chambered spiral shells resembling those of the extinct belemnites
spirula: a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
belemnoidea: order of extinct dibranchiate cephalopods related to the surviving spirulas
belemnitidae: family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods
craw: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
gizzard: thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
crustacea: class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas
malacostraca: largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies
decapoda: lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns
decapod crustacean: crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
brachyura: an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
menippe: stone crabs
stone crab: large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
cancridae: many of the best known edible crabs
cancer: type genus of the family Cancridae
soft-shell crab: edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell
dungeness crab: small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America
rock crab: crab of eastern coast of North America
jonah crab: large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America
portunidae: swimming crabs
portunus: type genus of the family Portunidae
english lady crab: crab of the English coasts
ovalipes: a genus of Portunidae
american lady crab: brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
callinectes: New World blue crabs
blue crab: bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
uca: fiddler crabs
pinnotheridae: tiny soft-bodied crabs
pinnotheres: type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs
oyster crab: tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
lithodidae: deep-sea crabs of cold waters
paralithodes: a genus of Lithodidae
king crab: large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan
majidae: spider crabs
maja: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
european spider crab: a large spider crab of Europe
macrocheira: giant crabs of Japan
giant crab: very large deep-water Japanese crab
reptantia: lobsters; crabs
homaridae: large-clawed lobsters
homarus: type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters
american lobster: lobster of Atlantic coast of America
european lobster: lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe
cape lobster: small lobster of southern Africa
nephropsidae: in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
nephrops: a genus of Nephropsidae
norway lobster: edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer
palinuridae: spiny lobsters
palinurus: type genus of the family Palinuridae
spiny lobster: large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
astacidae: crayfish
crayfish: small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
astacus: type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish
old world crayfish: small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
cambarus: a genus of Astacidae
american crayfish: common large crayfishes of eastern North America
paguridae: hermit crabs
pagurus: type genus of the family Paguridae
natantia: shrimp; prawns; etc.
crangonidae: shrimps
crangon: type genus of the family Crangonidae
snapping shrimp: small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae
palaemonidae: prawns
palaemon: type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus
long-clawed prawn: large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers
peneidae: tropical prawns
peneus: type genus of the family Peneidae
schizopoda: in former classifications a division of Malacostraca; superseded by the orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea
euphausiacea: small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill
euphausia pacifica: food for jellyfish
mysidacea: opossum shrimp
mysidae: small shrimp-like crustaceans
mysis: type genus of the family Mysidae
praunus: a genus of Mysidae
stomatopoda: mantis shrimps
stomatopod: a kind of crustacean
mantis shrimp: tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
squillidae: crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore
genus squilla: type genus of the family Squillidae
squilla: a kind of mantis shrimp
isopoda: woodlice
woodlouse: any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
armadillidiidae: pill bugs
armadillidium: type genus of the Armadillidiidae
oniscidae: a family of Isopoda
oniscus: type genus of the Oniscidae; woodlice that cannot roll into a ball
porcellionidae: sow bugs
porcellio: Old World genus of isopod crustaceans
sea louse: marine isopod crustacean
amphipoda: small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp
orchestiidae: beach fleas
orchestia: type genus of the family Orchestiidae
beach flea: small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
caprella: skeleton shrimp
cyamus: whale lice
entomostraca: in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use
branchiopoda: primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
branchiopod crustacean: aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
genus daphnia: water fleas
daphnia: minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
anostraca: small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps
artemia: fairy shrimp; brine shrimp
brine shrimp: common to saline lakes
notostraca: small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace
triopidae: a family of Notostraca
triops: type genus of the family Triopidae: small crustaceans with a small third median eye
copepoda: minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
copepod: minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
brit: minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
genus cyclops: copepod water fleas
cyclops: minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
branchiura: copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes
ostracoda: seed shrimps
seed shrimp: tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
cirripedia: barnacles
barnacle: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
balanidae: stalkless barnacles
balanus: type genus of the family Balanidae
acorn barnacle: barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
lepadidae: goose barnacles
lepas: type genus of the family Lepadidae
goose barnacle: stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
onychophora: enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids
onychophoran: any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
peripatidae: a family of Onychophora
genus peripatus: type genus of Peripatidae; onychophorans of chiefly New World tropical regions
plicatoperipatus: a genus of Peripatidae
plicatoperipatus jamaicensis: a kind of onychophoran
peripatopsidae: a family of Onychophora
peripatopsis: type genus of Peripatopsidae; onychophorans of chiefly Asiatic and African tropical regions
wading bird: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
ciconiiformes: order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises
ciconiidae: storks
ciconia: type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks
white stork: the common stork of Europe; white with black wing feathers and a red bill
black stork: Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below
leptoptilus: adjutant birds and marabous
adjutant bird: large Indian stork with a military gait
marabou: large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments
anastomus: openbills
genus jabiru: jabirus
jabiru: large white stork of warm regions of the world especially America
ephippiorhynchus: saddlebills
saddlebill: large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle
xenorhyncus: East Indian and Australian storks
policeman bird: large mostly white Australian stork
mycteria: a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis
wood ibis: an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics
balaenicipitidae: shoebills
balaeniceps: type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills
shoebill: large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe
threskiornithidae: ibises
genus ibis: ibises
wood ibis: any of several Old World birds of the genus Ibis
threskiornis: type genus of the Threskiornithidae
sacred ibis: African ibis venerated by ancient Egyptians
plataleidae: spoonbills
platalea: type genus of the Plataleidae
common spoonbill: pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa
ajaia: a genus of Platalea
roseate spoonbill: tropical rose-colored New World spoonbill
phoenicopteridae: flamingos
ardeidae: herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns
ardea: type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons
great blue heron: large American heron having bluish-grey plumage
great white heron: large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys
egretta: small Old and New World herons
little blue heron: small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere
snowy egret: small New World egret
little egret: Old World egret
casmerodius: a white egrets
great white heron: widely distributed Old World white egret
american egret: a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus
bubulcus: small white egrets
cattle egret: small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals
night heron: nocturnal or crepuscular herons
nycticorax: Old World night herons
black-crowned night heron: night heron of both Old and New Worlds
nyctanassa: American night herons
yellow-crowned night heron: North American night heron
cochlearius: boatbills
boatbill: tropical American heron related to night herons
botaurus: bitterns
american bittern: a kind of bittern
european bittern: a kind of bittern
ixobrychus: bitterns
least bittern: small American bittern
gruiformes: inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards
gruidae: cranes
grus: type genus of the Gruidae: typical cranes
whooping crane: rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call
aramus: genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the western hemisphere: courlan; limpkin
courlan: wading bird of South America and Central America
limpkin: wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call
cariamidae: crane-like South American wading birds
cariama: the type genus of the Cariamidae comprising only the crested cariama
crested cariama: Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama
genus chunga: a genus of Cariamidae
chunga: Argentinian Cariama
rallidae: rails; crakes; gallinules; coots
gallirallus: rails of New Zealand
weka: flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting
crex: corncrakes
corncrake: common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
porzana: spotted crakes
spotted crake: Eurasian rail of swamps and marshes
gallinula: gallinules
gallinule: any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens
florida gallinule: North American dark bluish-grey gallinule
moorhen: black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes
porphyrio: Old World purple gallinules
european gallinule: purple gallinule of southern Europe
porphyrula: American purple gallinules
american gallinule: American purple gallinule
genus notornis: a genus of Rallidae
notornis: flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules
fulica: coots
american coot: a coot found in North America
old world coot: a coot found in Eurasia
otides: terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards
otididae: bustards
otis: type genus of the Otididae: European bustard
great bustard: largest European land bird
choriotis: Australian bustard
plain turkey: popular Australian game bird
turnicidae: small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail
turnix: type genus of the Turnicidae: button quail
button quail: small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
striped button quail: a variety of button quail having stripes
pedionomus: plain wanderer
plain wanderer: small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains
psophiidae: trumpeters
psophia: type genus of the Psophiidae: trumpeters
brazilian trumpeter: trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana; often kept to protect poultry in Brazil
charadriiformes: large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life
seabird: a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc.
charadrii: shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews
limicolae: term used in some classifications for migratory shorebirds; coextensive with the Charadrii
shorebird: any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
charadriidae: plover family
charadrius: type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers
piping plover: small plover of eastern North America
killdeer: American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry
dotterel: rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia
pluvialis: golden plovers
vanellus: Eurasian lapwings
lapwing: large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
arenaria: turnstones
ruddy turnstone: common Arctic turnstone that winters in South America and Australia
black turnstone: common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America
scolopacidae: sandpiper family: sandpipers; woodcocks; snipes; tattlers; curlews; godwits; dowitchers
aphriza: a genus of Scolopacidae
surfbird: sandpiper-like shorebird of Pacific coasts of North America and South America
actitis: a genus of Scolopacidae
european sandpiper: a variety of sandpiper
spotted sandpiper: common North American sandpiper
erolia: a genus of Scolopacidae
least sandpiper: smallest American sandpiper
red-backed sandpiper: small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions
tringa: a genus of Scolopacidae
greenshank: large European sandpiper with greenish legs
redshank: a common Old World wading bird with long red legs
greater yellowlegs: a variety of yellowlegs
lesser yellowlegs: a variety of yellowlegs
calidris: a genus of Scolopacidae
pectoral sandpiper: American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting
knot: a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
curlew sandpiper: Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew
crocethia: a genus of Scolopacidae