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Abernathy Spring
Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...
Acanthocephalans
aka: Spiny-Headed Worms
aka: Thorny-Headed Worms
These cylindrical metazoan worms, superficially similar to nematode...
Algae
Arkansas has a very diverse assemblage of algae. The majority of the research conducted on algae in the state ...
Alligator Snapping Turtle
The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is North America’s largest freshwater turtle. This tu...
American Alligator
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) belongs to the class Reptilia, order Crocodylia, superfami...
American Burying Beetle
aka: Giant Carrion Beetle
The American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)—which belong...
American Eel
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) belongs to the order Anguilliformes and family Anguillidae. Common names ...
Ammonites
aka: Ammonoids
Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrates in the Phylu...
Amphibians
Arkansas has within its borders a modest assemblage of salamanders, frogs, and toads, which are taxonomically ...
Amphipods
aka: Scuds
Amphipods belong to the Phylum Arthropoda, Class Crustacea, Subclas...
Annelids
aka: Segmented Worms
The phylum Annelida consists of over 22,000 living species of segme...
Apicomplexans
aka: Sporozoans
The protistan Phylum Apicomplexa (formerly Sporozoa) contains a tre...
Arachnids
Arachnids belong to Chelicerata, one of four groups of living arthropods. The other three groups are Crustacea...
Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI)
The Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI) was created as the major research component set forth in the Tobacco ...
Arkansas Black Apple
The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...
Arkansas Darter
aka: Etheostoma cragini
Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) populations are scattered amon...
Arkansas Division of Information Systems (DIS)
The former Arkansas Department of Information Systems (ADIS) provided information technology solutions for the...
Arkansas Entomological Society
The Arkansas Entomological Society (AES) was founded in May 1991 by entomology educators, researchers, and ind...
Arkansas Fatmucket
aka: Lampsilis powellii
The Arkansas fatmucket is a bivalve mollusk belonging to the family...
Arkansas Geological Survey (AGS)
The Arkansas Geological Survey (AGS), formerly the Arkansas Geological Commission (AGC), is a division of the ...
Arkansas Mycological Society
The purpose of the Arkansas Mycological Society (AMS) is to educate its members in the differences between—a...
Arkansas Native Plant Society
The Arkansas Native Plant Society (ANPS) was established in 1980 to promote, first, the preservation, conserva...
Arkansas Research Alliance
A public/private economic-development organization, the nonprofit Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) was establi...
Arkansas Research and Test Station
The Arkansas Research and Test Station site in Montgomery County near Hopper (Montgomery County) was one of tw...
Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA)
The Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA) was created in 1983. Its mission is to bring the benefits...
Arkansas Sky Observatories
Arkansas Sky Observatories (ASO) is a network of four observatories that conduct studies of near Earth asteroi...
Arkansas State Crime Laboratory
The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory was established by Act 517 of 1977, Act 864 of 1979, and Act 45 of 1981. T...
Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS)
The Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS) is a horticultural crop producers’ organization whose primar...
Arkansite
Arkansite—a mineral that exists in ten U.S. states and eleven countries—is actually brookite, the rarest o...
Asian Longhorned Tick
aka: Bush Tick
The Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) is an ectopar...
Aspidogastreans
aka: Aspidobothrians
aka: Aspidobothreans
An interesting group within the Class Trematodes (flukes) includ...
Atherinopsids
aka: Neotropical Silversides
Atherinopsids, or neotropical silversides, belong to the order Athe...