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Cone-eared calyptotis |
Crediton State Forest, Queensland Photo © Stewart Macdonald |
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Calyptotis lepidorostrum | ||||||
Pronunciation | KAL-ipp-TOH-tiss LEP-id-oh-ROSS-trum | |||||
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Etymology |
Calyptotis: 'hidden ear'
lepidorostrum: "The name lepidorostrum derives from the Greek word for scale (lepidos) and the Latin word for snout (rostrum) and calls attention to the presence of distinct prefrontal scales in contrast to their absence in the closely related C. scutirostrum."1 |
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