Fallax


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Fal´lax


n.1.Cavillation; a caviling.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Relocation of Croton sonderianus (Euphorbiaceae) seeds by Pheidole fallax Mayr (Formicidae): a case of postdispersal seed protection by ants?
Pocket mice (Chaetodipus fallax and Perognathus longimembris) and pinyon mice (Peromyscus trueii) dismantled fruits and harvested loose seeds but did not appear to move them although they readily harvested loose seeds.
Family and species HRP VESP Buprestidae Acmaeodera pulchella (Herbst) 0 2 Acmaeodera tubulus (F.) 0 1 Actenodes acornis (Say) 49 3 Actenodes davidi Nelson (a) 34 0 Agrilus arcuatus (Say) 5 0 Agrilus bilineatus (Weber) 11 0 Agrilus difficilis Gory 210 0 Agrilus fallax Say 8 0 Agrilus lecontei lecontei Saunders 2 0 Agrilus macer LeConte 532 0 Agrilus obsoletoguttatus Gory 2 0 Agrilus quadriguttatus quadriguttatus (Gory) 76 0 Brachys ovatus (Weber) 6 0 Buprestis apricans Herbst (b) 0 1 Buprestis consularis Gory 0 43 Buprestis lineata F.
Ten non-migratory species of birds were used in these analyses, including six resident species--Coereba flaveola (CFA), Columbina passerina (CPA), Elaenia fallax (EFA), Loxigilla violacea (LVI), Myiarchus stolidus (MST), Turdus plumbeus (TPL) --and four endemic species--Microligea palustris (MPA), Phaenicophilus palmarum (PPA), Spindalis dominicensis (SDO), and Todus subulatus (TSU).
The Dwarf Green Tree Frog Litoria fallax (Salientia: Hylidae) is a small arboreal frog widespread in wetlands of the coastal plain and ranges of eastern Australia, south of Cape York Peninsula and north of the border of Victoria (Cogger 2014).
Members of the Alosa genus, including the American shad (Alosa sapidissima) and Twaite shad (Alosa fallax), demonstrate heterochronal spawning (10, 11).
fallax occupies the intermediate ecologic niche as compared to the ecologic niches of the parental Oe.
Turan and Basusta (2001) studied the level of variation among the twaite shad (Alosa fallax nilotica) in the waters of territory of Turkey with the truss morphometric system using Discriminant Function (DFA) and Principal Component Analyses (PCA).