Molossusmolossusmolossus, the velvety free-tailed bat, ranges from Mexico to Argentina including the Caribbean islands, also occurring in the Florida Keys.
This whole gravid preserved specimen of Molossusmolossus (AMNH 149261) is part of the American Museum of Natural History Mammalogy Collection.
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 20 February 2003 along the coronal axis for a total of 1587 slices, each slice 0.0387 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.0387 mm.
Molossusmolossusmolossus, the velvety free-tailed bat, ranges from Mexico to Argentina including the Caribbean islands, also occurring in the Florida Keys.
This whole gravid preserved specimen of Molossusmolossus (AMNH 149261) is part of the American Museum of Natural History Mammalogy Collection.
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 20 February 2003 along the coronal axis for a total of 1587 slices, each slice 0.0387 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.0387 mm.
The dual function of the Molossus as both a herdsman's dog and a hunting dog are echoed in the Roman poet Horace's Sixth Epode (lines 5-10), where the Molossus and the very similar Laconian (Spartan) hound are first described as a "friendly force for shepherds" (amica vis pastoribus) and then as relentless trackers.
Give the frequent references to the Molossus dog in literature, the near non-existence of mastiff-like dogs in Greco-Roman art alone would make it highly improbable that the Molossus dog was any sort of mastiff, especially when recognizably mastiff-like dogs were relatively common in the art of the ancient near east.
In short, the identification of the famous Molossus dog of antiquity with bull and mastiff breeds is entirely a modern (in the broad sense of the word) misconception.
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In a later report Cope (1872b) wrote, "The head was as long or longer than that of a fully grown grizzly bear, and the jaws were deeper in proportion to their length.
This fish is known as Portheus molossus, Cope [Xiphactinus audax Leidy].
George M. Sternberg, a year before E. Cope gave the name of Portheus molossus to a collection of several nearly complete specimens found near Fort Wallace.
The Rottweiler originated from the Molossus, a now extinct breed of dog, and from early shepherding dogs of Europe.
The Molossus was a Mastiff-type dog of extreme power and large size.
The Molossus was the stem of many other breeds as well.
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Alexander is known to have crossed the giant Macedonian and Epirian war dogs with the short-haired "Indian" dogs to create the Molossus.
The Molossus was a dog characterized by having a wide, short muzzle and a heavy dewlap and was used to fight tigers, lions, elephants, and men in battle.
When the Romans conquered Greece, they adopted the Molossus dogs and also used them in battle, in the hunt, and in the arena.
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A new subspecies of the Aztec mastiff bat, Molossus aztecus Saussure, from southern Mexico (Los Angeles County Museum contributions in science ; no. 111) by Alfred L Gardner (Unknown Binding - 1966)
Notes on the bats of the genus Molossus by Gerrit Smith Miller (Unknown Binding - 1913)
Intraisland and interisland variation in Antillean populations of Molossusmolossus (Mammalia, Molossidae) (Annals of Carnegie Museum) by Hugh H Genoways (Unknown Binding - 1981)
Le Naissus Molossus était probablement un résultat de croisement des mastiffs romains et grecs avec les Balkan sheepdogs.
Il y a également une théorie suggérant que le Naissus Molossus ait réussi à obtenir sa lignée d'un autre Molosse éteint, le Russian Medelyan Mastiff.
L'information rare au sujet du Naissus Molossus indique seulement que le chien était "… un Goliath canin, tenant 40 pouces de haut, différant des ours qu'il a combattu seulement par sa fourrure blanche de poitrine et de sa fourrure tigrée…", apparemment laissant entendre que c'était un tigré avec des taches blanches.
Le Aryan Molossus est un chien lourd et musculaire, extrêmement agressif envers les chiens et les étrangers.
Le Aryan Molossus a une fourrure très dense, avec un poil mi-court, gris ou gris sable, habituellement uniforme en couleurs, mais quelques chiens ont des taches blanches sur leurs pieds et la poitrine.
Si vous êtes éleveur ou avez un club de race Aryan Molossus, merci de l'inscrire dans l'annuaire.
But we can be pretty certain that Tennyson was not thinking, "Why don't I start a poem with something really obscure, like a molossus?" He had this bleak rhythm in his mind, and then he sought a line which would match it.
And actually this line seems to have four stresses, although it can be read as a three-stress line ("On thy cold gray stones, O Sea").
