Uncia Uncia is the Latin name for which animal?
Snow leopard named the cat "Felis uncia" and gave its type locality as Barbary, Persia, East India, and China. In 1854, the British zoologist John Edward Gray proposed the genus "Uncia", to which he subordinated the snow leopard under the name "Uncia irbis". British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock corroborated this classification, but attributed the scientific name "Uncia uncia". He also described morphological differences between snow leopards and the then-accepted "Panthera" species. Following Schreber's description of the species, several snow leopard subspecies were proposed: Until spring 2017, there was no evidence available for recognition of subspecies. Results of a phylogeographic study published in
Uncia (coin) Uncia (coin) The uncia (Latin, "twelfth part") was a Roman currency worth 1/12 of an "as". By derivation, it was also the name of a bronze coin valued at one-twelfth of an as produced during the Roman Republic. The "uncia" started as a Roman-Oscan weight of about 23 grams for a 273 gram pound, with Attic weight issues of about 27 grams under the libral standard for a 327 gram pound and was produced occasionally towards the beginning of Roman cast bronze coinage. Obverse types of the uncia include a knucklebone (c. 289–245 BC), a barleycorn (c. 280–245 BC), and