For some time the presence of the diorite was unperceived, and it was considered a mere fine grained variation of the Cape Ann granitite.

They miscalculated by assuming the dimensions were in imperial, not metric.

A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.

Modifiers are frequently in the form of a pseudo-participial (e.g. red-whiskered bulbul), especially where there is a large number of species for that type of bird, such as the bulbuls, of which 24 species occur in South Asia.