C. elegans (disambiguation)

C. elegans is a species abbreviation, most commonly used for the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. It may also refer to:

Animals

Insects

Beetles and weevils (Coleoptera)

• Caledonomorpha elegans, a beetle
• Calliprason elegans, a beetle found in New Zealand
• Callistomimus elegans, a beetle
• Callotillus elegans, a beetle found in Texas, California and Arizona
• Calosoma elegans, a ground beetle found in Kazakhstan
• Cartodere elegans, a beetle found in Europe
• Catalabus elegans, a beetle found in India
• Catascopus elegans, a beetle
• Catharesthes elegans, a beetle
• Centrocerum elegans, a beetle
• Cephalota elegans (syn. Cicindela elegans), a ground beetle found in Russia
• Chalcogenia elegans, a beetle
• Championa elegans, a beetle
• Chlaenius elegans, a beetle
• Chondria elegans, a beetle found in Malaysia
• Clema elegans, a beetle
• Clivina elegans, a ground beetle
• Cneorane elegans, a leaf beetle found in Japan and Korea
• Colliuris elegans, a beetle
• Conotrachelus elegans, the pecan gall curculio, a true weevil
• Coptoclavella elegans, a beetle
• Coptocycla elegans, a leaf beetle found in Brazil
• Craspedophorus elegans, a beetle
• Crosita elegans, a leaf beetle
• Cymbachus elegans, a beetle found in Laos
• Cymindis elegans, a ground beetle
• Cyrtotrachelus elegans, a beetle

Moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera)

• Cacozelia elegans, a snout moth found in Venezuela
• Cacyparis elegans, a moth found in the Solomon Islands
• Casphalia elegans, a moth found in Ghana
• Catalebeda elegans, a moth found in Africa
• Catapaecilma elegans, the common tinsel, a blue butterfly found in Asia
• Chersotis elegans, a moth found in the mountains of Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Caucasus and Lebanon
• Circobotys elegans, a moth found in Taiwan
• Cochylimorpha elegans, a moth found in Iran
• Correbidia elegans, a moth found in Mexico and Panama
• Cosmodes elegans, the green-blotched moth, a moth found in Australia and New Zealand
• Cosmosoma elegans, a moth found in Brazil
• Cyrestis elegans, a butterfly known from Madagascar

Flies and gnats (Diptera)

• Callomyia elegans, a fly found in Europe
• Chalcosyrphus elegans, a hoverfly
• Chrysopilus elegans, a snipe fly found from Costa Rica to Peru
• Chrysotoxum elegans, a hoverfly found in southern mainland Europe
• Chrysotus elegans, a fly found in Hawaii
• Coenosia elegans, a true fly
• Conioscinella elegans, a fly
• Conops elegans, a fly found in Cyprus, France and Spain
• Corynoptera elegans, a fungus gnat found in La Plata, Argentina
• Cryptomeigenia elegans, a fly
• Ctenophora elegans, a true crane-fly

Wasps, bees and ants (Hymenoptera)

• Calliscelio elegans (syn. Caloteleia elegans), a parasitoid wasp found on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu
• Cardiocondyla elegans, an ant found in the Mediterranean region
• Centris elegans, a bee found on Saint Vincent and Grenadines
• Cerapachys elegans, an ant
• Ceropales elegans, a spider wasp
• Cheiloneurus elegans, a parasitic wasp
• Coelinidea elegans, a bee
• Colletes elegans, a ground-nesting bee found in Israel
• Crematogaster elegans, an ant found on the Aru and Kai Islands, Indonesia
• Cryptocheilus elegans, a spider wasp found in Europe

Other insects

• Caliris elegans, a mantis found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo
• Calofulcinia elegans, a praying mantis found in New Guinea
• Ceraeochrysa elegans, a green lacewing
• Ceuthophilus elegans, a cave crickets found in the United States
• Chlorolestes elegans, a damselfly found in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
• Chrysopidia elegans, a green lacewing found in China and Nepal
• Compsocus elegans, a Psocoptera found in Central America

Crustaceans

• Calcinus elegans, a hermit crab found in the Indo-West Pacific region
• Calocalanus elegans, a marine copepod found in the Canaries, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and sub-Antarctic waters
• Cancricepon elegans, an isopod
• Chalarostylis elegans, a cumacean
• Cuapetes elegans, a shrimp
• Cyclaspis elegans, a cumacean
• Cyclops elegans, a freshwater copepod
• Cymothoa elegans, a parasitic isopod found in the Java Sea

Arachnids

• Caelopygus elegans, a harvestman found in Brazil
• Caledothele elegans, a spider found in New Caledonia
• Calocheiridius elegans, a pseudoscorpion
• Cambridgea elegans, a spider found in New Zealand
• Camillina elegans, a spider found in the Caribbean, in Angola and in the Pacific Islands
• Carinostoma elegans, a harvestman found in Hungary
• Centruroides elegans, a scorpion found in Mexico
• Cereatta elegans, a harvestman found in Cameroon
• Cesonia elegans, a spider found on St. Vincent, Dominica
• Cethegus elegans, a spider found in Queensland
• Cheiracanthium elegans, a spider found in Europe and Central Asia
• Cryptoditha elegans, a pseudoscorpion
• Cyriocosmus elegans, a tarantula found in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago

Molluscs

• Chaetoderma elegans, a mollusc found in the Eastern Pacific
• Costentalina elegans, a scaphopod
• Craspedochiton elegans, a chiton

Gastropods

• Caloria elegans, a colorful sea slug
• Capulus elegans, a sea snail
• Chilina elegans, an air-breathing freshwater snail
• Chrysallida elegans, a sea snail
• Cochlespira elegans, a sea snail found in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Greater Antilles
• Columbinia elegans, an air-breathing land snail
• Comitas elegans, a sea snail
• Conasprella elegans, a sea snail
• Coronium elegans, a sea snail
• Crioceratites elegans, an ammonite from the Early Cretaceous
• Cryptospira elegans, a sea snail
• Cyerce elegans, a sacoglossan sea slug

Vertebrates

• Cardioglossa elegans, a frog found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
• Celeus elegans, the chestnut woodpecker, a bird found in South America
• Chirostenotes elegans, a possible oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Alberta, Montana and South Dakota
• Chlorostilbon elegans, Gould's emerald, a presumed extinct hummingbird likely from Jamaica or the Bahamas
• Coleonyx elegans, the Yucatán banded gecko, a lizard found in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
• Cornufer elegans, a frog endemic to Papua New Guinea
• Cricosaurus elegans, an extinct marine crocodyliform
• Ctenochasma elegans, a pterosaur of the Late Jurassic of Germany and France
• Cyclanorbis elegans, the Nubian flapshell turtle, an African softshell turtle
• Cynodictis elegans, an Eocene–Oligocene Eurasian terrestrial carnivore

Fish

• Chomatodus elegans, a prehistoric cartilaginous fish
• Cladodus elegans, a prehistoric cartilaginous fish
• Cladoselache elegans, an extinct shark that appeared in the Devonian period
• Corydoras elegans, the elegant corydoras or elegant catfish, a freshwater fish found in the Upper Amazon River basin
• Crossocheilus elegans, a fish found in northern Borneo, Indonesia
• Ctenacanthus elegans, a prehistoric cartilaginous fish
• Cybiosarda elegans, a marine fish
• Cynodonichthys elegans, a fish found in Colombia
• Cyprinodon elegans, the Comanche Springs pupfish, a fish found in the United States

Other animals

• Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode worm extensively used as a model in developmental biology
• Calceolispongia elegans, an extinct crinoid that lived along the shores of what corresponds to Timor and Western Australia today
• Callyspongia elegans, a demosponge found in Indonesia
• Chaetonotus elegans, a gastrotrich
• Cinctipora elegans, a bryozoan found in New Zealand
• Clavelina elegans, a tunicate

Plants

Flowering plants

Dicotyledons

• Calibrachoa elegans, a plant found in Minas Gerais in Brazil
• Calliandra elegans, a plant found in Brazil
• Callicarpa elegans, a plant found in the Philippines
• Calligonum elegans, a plant found in Uzbekistan
• Calyptranthes elegans, a plant found in the Lesser Antilles
• Campanula elegans, a plant
• Capparis elegans (syn. Capparidastrum elegans), a plant found in Brazil
• Castilleja elegans, the elegant Indian paintbrush, a herbaceous plant found in Canada
• Cereus elegans, a cactus
• Ceropegia elegans, a plant found in India and Sri Lanka
• Cestrum elegans, a plant
• Chaerophyllum elegans, a plant found in the Alps from Switzerland, France and Italy
• Chaetanthera elegans, a plant found in Chile
• Chesneya elegans, a plant found in Turkey
• Clusiella elegans, a plant found in Colombia
• Clypeola elegans, a plant found in Turkey
• Clytostoma elegans, a plant
• Colquhounia elegans, a shrub found in Asia
• Conchocarpus elegans (syn. Cusparia elegans), a plant found in Brazil
• Condaminea elegans, a plant found in Peru
• Conophytum elegans, a succulent plant
• Coprosma elegans, a plant found in New Guinea
• Cotoneaster elegans, a plant found in China
• Crassula elegans, the elegant crassula, a plant
• Crepis elegans, the elegant hawksbeard, a plant found in North America
• Croton elegans, a plant
• Cryptotaenia elegans, also known in Spanish as perejil de Monteverde (Parsley of Monteverde), a plant endemic of the Canary Islands
• Cyclamen elegans, a plant found in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaijan
• Cynanchum elegans, the white-flowered wax plant, a plant found in New South Wales in Australia

Monocotyledons

Orchids

• Caladenia elegans, an orchid found in Australia
• Chloraea elegans, an orchid found in Argentine
• Cirrhopetalum elegans, an epiphytic orchid found in Malaya
• Crocodeilanthe elegans, an orchid found from Venezuela to Ecuador
• Cyclopogon elegans, an orchid found in Brazil
• Cymbidium elegans, an orchid found in South West China
• Cynorkis elegans, an orchid found in Madagascar
• Cypripedium elegans, a lady's-slipper found in Nepal and China

Palms

• Calamus elegans, a palm
• Calyptrocalyx elegans, a palm found in Papua New Guinea and the nearby Maluku Islands
• Chamaedorea elegans (syn. Collinia elegans), the neanthe bella palm or parlour palm, a small palm tree
• Coccothrinax elegans, a palm found in Cuba
• Cyphophoenix elegans, a palm found only in New Caledonia
• Cyrtostachys elegans, a palm endemic to New Guinea

Bamboos and grasses

• Chusquea elegans, a bamboo found in Paraná, Brazil
• Ctenium elegans, a grass found from Senegal to the Sudan
• Cymbopogon elegans, a grass
• Cynosurus elegans, a grass

Other monocotyledons

• Calochortus elegans, the elegant Mariposa lily or cat's ear, a plant found in the western United States from northern California to Montana
• Cypella elegans, a herbaceous plant found in Argentina
• Cyperus elegans, a sedge from Central and South America

Other plants

• Cephalomanes elegans, a fern
• Chaetomitrium elegans, a moss
• Chaetophora elegans, a green alga
• Chara elegans, a green alga
• Cunninghamites elegans, an extinct conifer from the Late Cretaceous of Europe

Fungi

• Canalisporium elegans, a lignicolous fungus found in Malaysia
• Chaetosphaeria elegans
• Chytriomyces elegans
• Cladosporium elegans, a fungal plant pathogen
• Collemopsidium elegans, a fungus found in Europe and in North and South America
• Conocybe elegans, a fungus found in Denmark
• Corallomycetella elegans
• Cunninghamella elegans, a fungus used as a model of mammalian xenobiotics metabolism
• Cymatoderma elegans (syn. Cladoderris elegans), a basidiomycete found in Indonesia
• Cylindrocladiella elegans, an ascomycete
• Cyrenella elegans, a basidiomycete

Other (algae)

• Chondracanthus elegans, a red alga
• Claudea elegans, a marine red alga
• Craspedodiscus elegans, a diatom
• Cymbella elegans, a diatom
• Cystoseira elegans, a brown alga found in the Mediterranean

Synonyms

• Cactus elegans, a synonym for Disocactus phyllanthoides, a cactus
• Caecum elegans, a synonym for Caecum trachea, a minute sea snail
• Cainotherium elegans, a synonym for Cainotherium, an extinct genus of rabbit-sized herbivore that lived in Europe from the Eocene until the early Miocene
• Calamagrostis elegans, a synonym for Calamagrostis eminens, a grass
• Calamaria elegans, a synonym for Calamaria modesta, a dwarf snake found in Java
• Caligulus elegans, a synonym of Caligus curtus, a sea louse
• Calliostoma elegans , a synonym for Laetifautor elegans, a sea snail found in Japan
• Callisia elegans, a synonym for Callisia gentlei var. elegans, a flowering plant
• Callithamnion elegans, a synonym for Gymnothamnion elegans, a red alga found in South Africa
• Caloplaga elegans or Callopisma elegans, synonyms for Xanthoria elegans, a lichen
• Calycadenia elegans, a synonym for Calycadenia pauciflora,the smallflower western rosinweed, a flowering plant found in northern California
• Canna elegans, a synonym for Canna indica or Canna glauca, two plant
• Capnodium elegans, a synonym for Acrogenotheca elegans, a fungus species found in Australia and New Zealand
• Capraella elegans, a synonym for Martensia elegans, a red alga found in South Africa
• Carcharias elegans, a synonym for Carcharhinus melanopterus, the blacktip reef shark, a requiem shark inhabiting the tropical coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans
• Carex elegans, a synonym for Carex limosa, the mud sedge and shore sedge, a plant found across North America and Eurasia
• Cassia elegans, a synonym for Senna septemtrionalis, a plant
• Cerastium elegans, a synonym for Cerastium cerastoides, a flowering plant found in Mountain regions of Europe
• Chaerocampa elegans, a synonym for Hippotion echeclus, a moth found in South-East Asia
• Chaetospila elegans or Choetospila elegans, synonyms for Theocolax elegans, a parasitic wasp
• Chalara elegans, a synonym for Thielaviopsis basicola, a plant pathogen
• Chatterjeea elegans, a synonym for Shuvosaurus inexpectatus, a beaked reptile from the Late Triassic of Texas
• Chloris elegans, a synonym for Chloris virgata, the feather fingergrass or feather windmillgrass, a grass
• Chromodoris elegans, a synonym for Hypselodoris picta, a sea slug found throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern North Atlantic Ocean
• Chrysochloris elegans, a synonym for Chrysochloris asiatica, the Cape golden mole, a small insectivorous mammal found in certain south-western regions of South Africa
• Clarkia elegans, a synonym for Clarkia unguiculata, the elegant clarkia, a plant found in California
• Clianella elegans, a synonym for Dynoides elegans, an isopod species found in California
• Clidemia elegans, a synonym for Clidemia hirta, the soapbush or Koster's curse, an invasive plant found in many tropical regions of the world
• Clinocephalus elegans, a synonym for Dichromorpha elegans, the short-winged grasshopper
• Clintonia elegans, a synonym for Downingia elegans, the elegant calicoflower or Californian lobelia, a flowering plant native to western North America from California to British Columbia
• Clitocybe elegans, a synonym for Armillaria heimii, a fungus
• Coelacanthus elegans, a synonym for Rhabdoderma elegans, an extinct species of coelacanth fish that lived in the Carboniferous
• Collybia elegans a synonym for Marasmius elegans, the velvet parachute, a fungus
• Colopalpus elegans, a synonym for Tenuipalpus elegans, a mite
• Coluria elegans, a synonym for Coluria longifolia, a plant found in China
• Combretum elegans, a synonym for Combretum rotundifolium, the monkey brush, a plant found in South America
• Commelina elegans, a synonym for Commelina erecta, the white mouth dayflower or slender dayflower, a perennial herb native throughout the Americas, Africa and western Asia
• Conus elegans, a synonym for Conasprella elegans, a cone snail
• Convolvulus elegans, a synonym for Bonamia elegans, a flowering plant found in Myanmar
• Corallomyces elegans (disambiguation)
• Coreopsis elegans or Calliopsis elegans, two synonyms for Coreopsis tinctoria, the plains coreopsis, an annual plant common to much of the United States
• Coronilla elegans, a synonym for Securigera elegans, a plant species
• Crassina elegans, a synonym for Zinnia elegans, a plant native to Mexico
• Craspedocephalus elegans, a synonym for Trimeresurus elegans, a venomous pitviper species endemic to Japan
• Cryptolepis elegans, a synonym for Cryptolepis sinensis, a plant
• Chrysemys elegans, a synonym for Trachemys scripta elegans, the red-eared slider, a semiaquatic turtle
• Curculio elegans, a synonym for Sphenophorus abbreviatus, a weevil
• Curimata elegans, a synonym for Steindachnerina elegans, a fish found in rivers in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Cursoria elegans or Cusoria elegans, synonyms for Eryx elegans, a non-venomous boa species found in western Central Asia
• Cyathea elegans, a synonym for Cyathea grevilleana, a tree fern found in Jamaica
• Cyclobothra elegans (disambiguation)
• Cyclostrema elegans, a synonym for Adeorbis elegans, a gastropod
• Cyclostoma elegans, a synonym for Pomatias elegans, the round-mouthed snail, a land snail common in Southern Europe
• Cyrtopodion elegans, a synonym for Cyrtopodion elongatum, the Yangihissar gecko, a lizard found in northwest China and Mongolia
• Cystoderma elegans and Cystodermella elegans, two synonyms of Armillaria elegans, a fungus found in Congo

See also

• Choristes elegans var. tenera, a synonym for Choristella tenera, a sea snail
• Elegans (disambiguation)
• C. c. elegans (disambiguation)
• C. inelegans (disambiguation)
• C. elegantissimum (elegantissimum meaning most elegant)