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Opuntia echios

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Internal ID UUID64405ac23b418808726586
Scientific name Opuntia echios
Authority Howell
First published in in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 21: 49. 1933.

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Language Common/alternative name
English prickly pear
Lithuanian ežinė opuncija

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Opuntia echios var. barringtonensis E.Y.Dawson in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 34: 104. 1962.
Opuntia echios var. echios
Opuntia echios var. gigantea Howell in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 21: 51. 1933.
Opuntia echios var. inermis E.Y.Dawson in Cact. Succ. J. (Los Angeles) 34: 103. 1962.
Opuntia echios var. zacana (J.T.Howell) E.F.Anderson & Walk. in Madroño 20: 256. 1970.

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0001289389
Tropicos 5107347
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:291003-2
The Plant List tro-5107347
Open Tree Of Life 352552
NCBI Taxonomy 412453
IPNI 291003-2
iNaturalist 54673
GBIF 7280147
Freebase /m/02xb_23
EOL 5177784
USDA GRIN 310504
Wikipedia Opuntia_echios

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Where did the finch go? Insights from radio telemetry of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) Beausoleil M, Camacho C, Rabadán‐González J, Lalla K, Richard R, Carrion‐Avilés P, Hendry AP, Barrett RD Ecol Evol 26-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9039628
doi:10.1002/ece3.8768
PMID:35494501
Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers Tapia W, Gibbs JP PeerJ 20-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8784015
doi:10.7717/peerj.12711
PMID:35116195
Whole blood fatty acid concentrations in the San Cristóbal Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis chathamensis) Dass K, Lewbart GA, Muñoz-Pérez JP, Yépez MI, Loyola A, Chen E, Páez-Rosas D PeerJ 30-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8254470
doi:10.7717/peerj.11582
PMID:34249492
Species functional traits and abundance as drivers of multiplex ecological networks: first empirical quantification of inter-layer edge weights Hervías-Parejo S, Tur C, Heleno R, Nogales M, Timóteo S, Traveset A Proc Biol Sci 25-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7739492
doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2127
PMID:33234084
A Novel Divergent Geminivirus Identified in Asymptomatic New World Cactaceae Plants Fontenele RS, Salywon AM, Majure LC, Cobb IN, Bhaskara A, Avalos-Calleros JA, Argüello-Astorga GR, Schmidlin K, Khalifeh A, Smith K, Schreck J, Lund MC, Köhler M, Wojciechowski MF, Hodgson WC, Puente-Martinez R, Van Doorslaer K, Kumari S, Vernière C, Filloux D, Roumagnac P, Lefeuvre P, Ribeiro SG, Kraberger S, Martin DP, Varsani A Viruses 03-Apr-2020
PMCID:PMC7232249
doi:10.3390/v12040398
PMID:32260283
Effectiveness of water-saving technologies during early stages of restoration of endemic Opuntia cacti in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Tapia PI, Negoita L, Gibbs JP, Jaramillo P PeerJ 03-Dec-2019
PMCID:PMC6896940
doi:10.7717/peerj.8156
PMID:31824769
Hybridization increases population variation during adaptive radiation Grant PR, Grant BR Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 28-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6859339
doi:10.1073/pnas.1913534116
PMID:31659024
Adult sex ratio influences mate choice in Darwin’s finches Grant PR, Grant BR Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 03-Jun-2019
PMCID:PMC6589660
doi:10.1073/pnas.1903838116
PMID:31160459
Annual environmental variation influences host tolerance to parasites McNew SM, Knutie SA, Goodman GB, Theodosopoulos A, Saulsberry A, Yépez R. J, Bush SE, Clayton DH Proc Biol Sci 27-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6408884
doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0049
PMID:30963843
Influence of fruit dispersal on genotypic diversity and migration rates of a clonal cactus from the Chihuahuan Desert García‐Morales E, Carrillo‐Ángeles IG, Golubov J, Piñero D, Mandujano MC Ecol Evol 07-Dec-2018
PMCID:PMC6308869
doi:10.1002/ece3.4657
PMID:30619565
Experimental test of the effect of introduced hematophagous flies on corticosterone levels of breeding Darwin’s finches Knutie SA, Koop JA, French SS, Clayton DH Gen Comp Endocrinol 24-Jul-2013
PMCID:PMC4383185
doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.07.009
PMID:23892015
Pollination patterns and plant breeding systems in the Galápagos: a review Chamorro S, Heleno R, Olesen JM, McMullen CK, Traveset A Ann Bot 12-Jun-2012
PMCID:PMC3489146
doi:10.1093/aob/mcs132
PMID:22691541
Experimental Demonstration of the Fitness Consequences of an Introduced Parasite of Darwin's Finches Koop JA, Huber SK, Laverty SM, Clayton DH PLoS One 11-May-2011
PMCID:PMC3092749
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019706
PMID:21589659
Songs of Darwin's finches diverge when a new species enters the community Grant BR, Grant PR Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 03-Nov-2010
PMCID:PMC2996702
doi:10.1073/pnas.1015115107
PMID:21048082
Seed Anatomy and Water Uptake in Relation to Seed Dormancy in Opuntia tomentosa (Cactaceae, Opuntioideae) Orozco-Segovia A, Márquez-Guzmán J, Sánchez-Coronado ME, Gamboa de Buen A, Baskin JM, Baskin CC Ann Bot 13-Feb-2007
PMCID:PMC2802935
doi:10.1093/aob/mcm001
PMID:17298989

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