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California quail
California quail (Callipepla californica), or valley quail, a small plump New World quail of the Pacific coast with a six-feather forward topknot, Chi-ca-go call, scaled belly, coveys, and introductions to New Zealand and Chile.
California sea lion
California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), an eared seal of the eastern North Pacific from southeast Alaska to central Mexico. MMPA-protected; U.S. stock grew up to 7 percent yearly from 1975 to 2014; males reach 700 pounds; distinct from Steller sea lion.
California slender salamander
California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus), a lungless plethodontid salamander of coastal northern California and southwestern Oregon; worm-like body, four hind toes, 39 proposed cryptic species, IUCN Least Concern.
California Sober
California sober, or Cali sober, is an informal recovery approach of abstaining from alcohol and hard drugs while using cannabis, sometimes psychedelics; inspired by harm reduction, popularized by Demi Lovato's song, and contested by 12-step programs and clinicians.
Calisthenics
Calisthenics: bodyweight resistance training (Greek kalos + sthenos, beauty and strength) using push-ups, squats, planks, and pull-ups with little or no equipment; distinct from the Australian artistic team sport and street workout competition.
Calitoxin
Calitoxin (CLX-I, CLX-II; Δ-hormotoxin-Cpt1a/b), a 46-residue type 4 sea anemone neurotoxic peptide from Calliactis parasitica that acts on voltage-gated sodium channels, causing massive neurotransmitter release in crustacean axons.
Callaloo
Callaloo is a Caribbean dish of cooked leafy greens and the greens themselves: amaranth in Jamaica, taro/dasheen in Trinidad, where it is a crab-and-okra soup; national dish of Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago.
Calley Means
Calley Means, American health entrepreneur, TrueMed co-founder, and senior HHS adviser under RFK Jr.; ex-food/pharma consultant, Good Energy co-author with sister Casey Means, key MAHA architect.
Callicarpa
Callicarpa (beautyberry) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 140-170 shrub and small tree species, type species C. americana, native from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific, and Australia, with showy purple drupes and mosquito-repellent leaf compounds.
Callicebus
Callicebus is the titi monkey genus of South American Pitheciidae primates, named by Thomas in 1903; now restricted to Atlantic forest personatus-group species, with relatives moved to Cheracebus and Plecturocebus.
Callicera spinolae
Callicera spinolae, the Golden Hoverfly, is a large, rare European hoverfly whose larvae live in water-filled rot holes of living trees; adults fly in September and October.
Callichimaera
Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs, is a 95-90 million-year-old fossil true crab from Colombia and Wyoming with larval-like adult traits, huge eyes, and oar-like swimming legs.
Callinectes danae
Callinectes danae (Dana swimming crab, cangrejo sirí, siri-da-maré) is a portunid swimming crab described by S. I. Smith in 1869, ranging from southern Florida to Santa Catarina, Brazil, living in estuaries to 75 m depth and fished artisanally.
Callinectes sapidus
Callinectes sapidus, the Atlantic blue crab, is a portunid swimming crab native from Nova Scotia to Argentina, prized in Chesapeake Bay fisheries and invasive across the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Callionymus lyra
Callionymus lyra, the common dragonet or European dragonet (Linnaeus, 1758), is a scaleless demersal fish of the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean; males reach 30.5 cm with sail-like blue dorsal fins, and it is a cod prey fish and contaminant-monitoring target.
CALLIOPE study
CALLIOPE (NCT07099456) is a prospective, multicenter observational study from Sapienza University of Rome assessing fertility and sexual function in adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, including semen analysis, TART ultrasound, and modified-release hydrocortisone effects.
Calliotropis
Calliotropis Seguenza, 1903 (also cited as 1902) is a genus of small deep-sea vetigastropod snails in the family Calliotropidae, superfamily Seguenzioidea, with type species C. ottoi and a Jurassic-to-recent fossil record.
Callipepla
Callipepla (crested quails) is a genus of four Odontophoridae quails of western North America: California, Gambel's, elegant, and scaled quail; formerly split as Callipepla and Lophortyx.
Calliphoridae
Calliphoridae, the blow flies or bottle flies, is a family of over 1,800 fly species found worldwide, whose carrion-feeding larvae are used to estimate time of death in forensics.
Calliphylloceras
Calliphylloceras (Spath, 1927) is an extinct phylloceratid ammonite genus, type species Phylloceras disputabile, ranging from Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous and characteristic of Tethyan seas, distinct from Hypophylloceras and Neocalliphylloceras.
Callirhoe
Callirhoe (poppy mallow, wine cup) is a genus of nine Malvaceae herbs native from the central United States to northeastern Mexico, typified by C. digitata, with gynodioecious species and the endangered Texas poppy-mallow.
Callistemon
Callistemon (bottlebrush) is an Australian genus of Myrtaceae shrubs with brush-like staminate flower spikes; Kew synonymizes it under Melaleuca, but the Australian Plant Census retains it.
Callistemon 'Captain Cook'
Callistemon 'Captain Cook' is a dwarf Australian bottlebrush cultivar of Callistemon viminalis, selected in Queensland, marketed as 'Compacta', renamed for the 1970 Bicentenary, with bright red 10-15 cm flower spikes and a 2 m rounded habit.
Callistemon 'Lilacinus'
Callistemon 'Lilacinus', the Lilac Bottlebrush, is the earliest known Callistemon cultivar, raised in Berlin in 1913 from seed collected near Como, NSW; Cheel's 1925 species name is now a synonym of Melaleuca citrina.
Callistemon 'Splendens'
Callistemon 'Splendens', also known as Callistemon citrinus 'Splendens', is an evergreen bottlebrush cultivar with arching branches and bright crimson flower spikes up to 15 cm long.
Callistoctopus macropus
Callistoctopus macropus (Risso, 1826), the white-spotted octopus, is a nocturnal red octopus with white spots from the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic to Senegal; IUCN Least Concern, now often placed in Pinnoctopus.
Callithrix
Callithrix (Atlantic forest marmosets), genus Erxleben 1777 of six Brazilian endemic marmoset species in two groups (aurita, jacchus); twin births with chimerism, invasive in Atlantic Forest, key biomedical model.
Callithrix jacchus
Callithrix jacchus, the common marmoset or white-tufted-ear marmoset (Simia jacchus, Linnaeus 1758), is a small Brazilian New World monkey with white ear tufts, twin births, cooperative infant care, and status as the leading marmoset model in biomedical research.
Callithrix penicillata
Callithrix penicillata, the black-pencilled or black-tufted-ear marmoset (mico-estrela), is a small Brazilian callitrichid monkey of the cerrado, IUCN Least Concern with decreasing trend, invasive in the Atlantic Forest, CITES Appendix II.
Callitriche
Callitriche, known commonly as water-starworts, is a genus of 78 species of aquatic and terrestrial herbs in Plantaginaceae, first published by Linnaeus in 1753 and almost cosmopolitan in range.