Elaeis guineensis Elaeis guineensis Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly called African oil palm or macaw-fat. It is the principal source of palm oil. It is native to west and southwest Africa, specifically the area between Angola and The Gambia; the species name "guineensis" refers to the name for the area, Guinea, and not the modern country which now bears that name. The species is also now naturalised in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Central America, the West Indies and several islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The closely related American oil palm "Elaeis oleifera" and a more distantly
Arctides guineensis Arctides guineensis Arctides guineensis is a species of slipper lobster which lives in the Bermuda Triangle. It is known in Bermuda as the small Spanish lobster, a name which is also favoured by the FAO. "Arctides guineensis" reaches a maximum length of , or a carapace length of . "A. guineensis" was described in 1799, making it one of the first slipper lobsters to be described, and only the second from the Western Atlantic (after "Scyllarides aequinoctialis" in 1793). The Hawaiian species "Arctides regalis" was previously considered to belong to the same species as "A. guineensis", but the two differ