Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word lineage. Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock(noun) the descendants of one individual.
A little known fact is that Sri Lanka is home to 125 Mammalian species. Much has been written about elephants, leopards and even on primates individually, but after W.W.A. Philipsâ review of Sri Lankaâs mammals in the 1930s, there was no comprehensive review undertaken.
There is known over 246 land gastropods of Sri Lanka. Fauna of Sri Lanka also include freshwater snails. The number of marine molluscs of Sri Lanka is not known and there is about 240 species listed meantime in 2006.