fossor

Who wouldn't envy the mole his nature, old fossor, Charon's shadow crossing over.

Most significant of these is The Fossor, which takes its name from the Latin for "the digger".

The "fossor" indicates the fossorial, or digging, specialization of the forelimbs.

In Roman theater, a term for clown was fossor, literally "digger; labourer".

Adult northern brook lamprey, Ichthyomyzon fossor (total length of this specimen is 148 mm).

I. fossor and Lethenteron lamottenii.

The generic name refers to the membership of the Docodonta and a burrowing lifestyle, fossor meaning "digger" in Latin.

Ichthyomyzon fossor (Northern brook lamprey)

Ichthyomyzon fossor Taxonomy Group:

Northern and Southern Brook Lampreys (Ichthyomyzon fossor and I. gagei) in Minnesota.

COSEWIC status report on the northern brook lamprey Ichthyomyzon fossor in Canada.

The northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) is a lamprey found in North America throughout the Great Lakes Watershed.

Among the representations of fossors in the catacombs the one best known, through Wiseman's "Fabiola", is that of the fossor Diogenes, discovered by Boldetti.

General Description The Northern Brook Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) is a non-parasitic species in the genus Ichthyomyzon.

Donax fossor lives from the coast of New York State south through New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, to East Florida.

A fossorial (from Latin fossor, "digger") animal is one that is adapted to digging and life underground such as the badger, the naked mole-rat, or the mole salamanders Ambystomatidae.

The oldest fresco of a fossor, or rather of two fossors, dates from the late second century, is in one of the Sacrament Chapels in the catacomb of St. Callistus.

According to this authority two fossors were brought before the judge; when interrogated as to their calling, one replied that he was a fossor, the other that he was an artifex, meaning a painter or sculptor.

For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus, two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (behind and near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice.

COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the northern brook lamprey Ichthyomyzon fossor (Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence populations and Saskatchewan – Nelson population) in Canada.

Fossor (Latin Fossarius, from the verb fodere 'to dig') is a term described in Chambers' dictionary as archaic, but can conveniently be revived to describe grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three centuries of the Christian Era.

COSEWIC Executive Summary northern brook lamprey Ichthyomyzon fossor Great Lakes – Upper St. Lawrence populations Saskatchewan – Nelson population Species information The northern brook lamprey is one of six species of the genus Ichthyomyzon.