Kwaro mara tashi
Kwaro mara tashi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Arthropoda |
Class | insect (en) |
Order | Coleoptera |
Dangi | Scarabaeidae (en) |
Genus | Circellium (en) |
jinsi | Circellium bacchus Fabricius, 1781
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Tarin ƙwaro mara tashi sama (Circellium bacchus) nau'in ƙwaro ne na taki zuwa ƴan yankuna na Afirka ta Kudu, gami da Addo Elephant National Park, Amakhala Game Reserve da Buffalo Valley Game Farm.[1] Shine kawai nau'in a cikin jinin Circellium.[2] Asarar jirgin yana bawa ƙwaro damar amfani da sarari mara komai a ƙarƙashin elytra a matsayin tankin ajiyar carbon dioxide, ƙirƙirar hanyar numfashi ta musamman wacce ke adana ruwa, ƙimar rayuwa mai mahimmanci a cikin busassun yankuna da take rayuwa a ciki.[3] [4] [5] ,Asalin jinsin ya yadu a Kudancin Afirka, amma yana rayuwa ne kawai a cikin ƴan yankunan da aka ambata a sama; don haka, ya cancanci zama nau'in IUCN mai rauni. Rashin lafiyarsa yana daɗa ta'azzara da wasu abubuwa da dama cewa tana da ƙarancin ƙarfin kiwo da ƙarancin tarwatsewa (saboda rashin tashi sama), da kuma cewa rayuwarta ta dogara sosai ga adadin kashin bayanta (musamman giwa da bawo) waɗanda kuma ke samun raguwar yawan jama'a.[6] Ƙwayoyin ƙwaro marasa tashi galibi suna ciyar da najasar giwa ko baƙo, amma an rubuta su don cin taki daga wasu nau'ikan kamar zomaye, baboon, tururuwa, da jiminai.[7]
Manazarta
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]- ↑ Circellium bacchus (Flightless dung beetle, Addo flightless dung beetle)". Biodiversity Explorer. Retrieved 16 October 2010
- ↑ Steven L. Chown, Pierre Pistorius & Clarke H. Scholtz (1998). "Morphological correlates of flightlessness in southern African Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): testing a condition of the water-conservation hypothesis" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (6): 1123–1133. doi:10.1139/z98-036.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Steven L. Chown, Pierre Pistorius & Clarke H. Scholtz (1998). "Morphological correlates of flightlessness in southern African Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): testing a condition of the water-conservation hypothesis" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 76 (6): 1123–1133. doi:10.1139/z98-036.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Roger Santer (2003). "Dung Beetles Turn in Wings for a Long, Dry Walk" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 1261–1262. doi:10.1242/jeb.00269.
- ↑ Marcus J. Byrne and Frances D. Duncan (2003). "The role of the subelytral spiracles in respiration in the flightless dung beetle Circellium bacchus" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 1309–1318. doi:10.1242/jeb.00250
- ↑ Circellium bacchus (Flightless dung beetle, Addo flightless dung beetle)". Biodiversity Explorer. Retrieved 16 October 2010
- ↑ Circellium bacchus (Flightless dung beetle, Addo flightless dung beetle)". Biodiversity Explorer. Retrieved 16 October 2010