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Orestes

In Greek mythology, Orestes (/ɒˈrɛstiːz/; Greek: Ὀρέστης ) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones....

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12 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Orestes guangxiensis

speciesOrestes guangxiensis

Orestes shirakii

speciesOrestes shirakii

Orestes mouhotii

speciesOrestes mouhotii

Orestes japonicus

speciesOrestes japonicus

Orestes draegeri

speciesOrestes draegeri

Orestes subcylindricus

speciesOrestes subcylindricus

Orestes bachmaensis

speciesOrestes bachmaensis

Orestes botot

speciesOrestes botot

Orestes diabolicus

speciesOrestes diabolicus

Orestes dittmari

speciesOrestes dittmari

Orestes krijnsi

speciesOrestes krijnsi

Orestes ziegleri

speciesOrestes ziegleri

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 741195.