Robusta

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Robusta is a common specific epithet, meaning "robust", and forms part of the scientific names of the following species:

[edit] Plants

• Agathis robusta, Smooth-barked Kauri
• Coffea robusta, the robusta coffee plant or its coffee.
• Deschampsia robusta, a grass
• Grevillea robusta, Australian Silver-oak
• Sal, Shorea robusta
• Washingtonia robusta, Mexican Fan Palm

[edit] Animals

Mammals

• Orange Nectar Bat, Lonchophylla robusta, a South American bat
• New Zealand Greater Short-tailed Bat, Mystacina robusta, an extinct New Zealand bat
• Fring-tailed Gerbil, Tatera robusta, an African rodent
• Large Mole, Mogera robusta, an Asian mole

Birds

• Mountain Mouse-warbler, Crateroscelis robusta, an Asian warbler
• Long-billed Spiderhunter, Arachnothera robusta, an Asian sunbird

Fish

• Roundtail chub, Gila robusta, a cyprinid fish
• Sauvagella robusta, a Madagascan fish

Amphibians

• Robust Frog, Austrochaperina robusta, an Australian frog
• Conraua robusta, an African frog
• Sapito Robusto, Otophryne robusta, a South American frog
• Buergeria robusta, a Taiwaese frog
• Euparkerella robusta, a South American frog
• Xenophrys robusta, an Asian toad
• Eurycea robusta, a Texan salamander
• Bolitoglossa robusta, a Central American salamander

Insects

• Pentagenia robusta, an extinct North American mayfly

Molluscs

• Actinella robusta, a Portuguese gastropod
• Partula robusta, an extinct gastropod from French Polynesia
• The Jackson lake springsnail, Pyrgulopsis robusta, a North American gastropod
• Carolina elktoe, Alasmidonta robusta, an extinct North American bivalve