Auratus
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Auratus can refer to:
- Jean Daurat (or Dorat) (1508 – 1588), a French poet and influential classical scholar
- Pierre Doré (c.1500 – 1559), a French Dominican theologian
A Latin word often used in taxonomy for species names. Auratus comes from the Latin root aurat-, meaning "gold" or "golden", and is consequently used to designate species of this colour. Species labelled auratus include:
- The northern flicker, Colaptes auratus
- The goldfish, Carassius auratus
- The golden hamster, Mesocricetus auratus
- A fish called the Malawi golden cichlid, Melanochromis auratus
- Pagrus auratus, a fish known in Australia and New Zealand as the Snapper
- A fish found in the Nile called Chrysichthys auratus
- A Tasmanian fish called the golden galaxias, Galaxias auratus
- The Green and Black Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates auratus
- The Madagascar starling, Hartlaubius auratus
- The Levant skink, Euprepis auratus
- The dogbane leaf beetle, Chrysochus auratus