title: P. elegans
text: # P. elegans
  
  P. elegans may refer to any of the following species:
  
  * Phaps elegans, the brush bronzewing, a bird
  * Phlebolepis elegans, a prehistoric jawless fish
  * Piperia elegans, the elegant piperia, coast piperia, hillside rein orchid or hillside bogorchid, an orchid native to western North America
  * Plagiorchis elegans, a parasitic trematode (fluke)
  * Platycercus elegans, the crimson rosella, a parrot native to eastern and south eastern Australia which has been introduced to New Zealand and Norfolk Island
  * Platycraniellus elegans, an extinct species of non-mammalian synapsids
  * Platypodium elegans, the graceful platypodium, a large tree found in the Neotropics
  * Plestiodon elegans, the five-striped blue-tailed skink or Shanghai skink, a lizard found in East Asia
  * Poiretia elegans, a flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae) found in Brazil
  * Polyscias elegans, the celery wood, a rainforest tree found in eastern Australia
  * Pomatias elegans, the round-mouthed snail, a small land snail
  * Prioniodus elegans, a conodont
  * Protaetia elegans, a flower chafer found in Taiwan
  * Psychopyge elegans, a trilobite
  * Ptychosperma elegans, the Alexander palm, solitaire palm, cabbage palm or elegant palm, a palm endemic to Australia
  * Parasagitta elegans, an arrow worm
  
  ## Synonyms
  
  * Pagurus elegans, a synonym of Calcinus elegans, a hermit crab
  * Palaeocasuarius elegans, a synonym for Megalapteryx didinus, the Upland moa, an extinct bird endemic to New Zealand
  * Paramecolabus elegans, a synonym of Catalabus elegans, a beetle found in India
  * Periclimenes elegans, a synonym of Cuapetes elegans, a shrimp
  * Phyracaces elegans, a synonym for Cerapachys elegans, an ant found in Australia
  * Pleroma elegans, a synonym of Tibouchina elegans, an ornamental plant native to Brazil
  * Pleurothallis elegans, a synonym for Stelis roseopunctata, an orchid
  * Pococera elegans, a synonym of Cacozelia elegans, a snout moth found in Venezuela
  * Pterodactylus elegans, a synonym of Ctenochasma elegans, a pterosaur
  