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.
Insects belonging to all 32 orders except Grylloblattodea have been recorded from the Sri Lanka.The total number of insect species recorded from the island is about 11,144. Coleoptera number 3033 species, Lepidoptera 2158 species, and Hymenoptera 1519 species.