The genus Borya contains tree-like species which behave as " resurrection plants ".

It contains only one genus, Xanthorrhoea, endemic to Australia.

Allieae contains only one genus Allium ( Milula is merged with Allium in the latest systems ).

* Athene ( owl ), a genus that contains two to four living species of small owls

The family Haliotidae contains only one genus, Haliotis.

That genus contains about four to seven subgenera.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

However, the tree constructed by the living tree project, a collaboration between ARB-Silva and LPSN where a 16S ( and 23S if available ) tree of all validated species was constructed, the genus Bacillus contains a very large number of nested taxa and majorly in both 16S and 23S it is paraphyletic to Lactobacillales ( Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Listeria, etc.

* Dinosaur genus list contains data tables on nearly every published Mesozoic dinosaur genus as of January 2011.

The African elephant genus contains two living species ; whereas the Asian elephant species is the only surviving member of the Asian elephant genus, but can be divided into four subspecies.

A member of the Cryptobranchidae family, hellbenders are the only members of the Cryptobranchus genus, and are joined only by one other genus of salamanders ( Andrias, which contains the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders ) at the family level.

The genus Actinidia contains around 60 species.

Acidithiobacillus contains 5 species and the sole genus in its order Acidithiobacillales

* Phoebis, a genus of Coliadinae that is not itself called the Sulfurs but that contains a number of species which are

The genus Sarcophilus contains two other species, known only from Pleistocene fossils: S. laniarius and S. moomaensis.

The genus contains at least 68 described extant taxa, but the true number of species is a matter of debate.

The genus Salmo contains the Atlantic salmon, found in the north Atlantic.

The genus Oncorhynchus contains eight species which occur naturally only in the north Pacific.

This genus is of great interest since it contains thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ), one of the model organisms used for studying plant biology and the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced.

Magnolia subgenus Magnolia can not be renamed because it contains Magnolia virginiana, the type species of the genus and of the family.

Panthera is a genus of the family Felidae ( cats ), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard.

The genus Apaloderma contains the three African species.

Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone.

Aloe, also Aloë, is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants.

* Prickly Ash ( Zanthoxylum ), genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae

* Sorbus, genus of about 100 – 200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae

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Nepeta is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae.

Aquilegia ( Columbine ) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers.

The genus Candida includes about 150 different species ; however, only a few are known to cause human infections.

The chimpanzee's genus, Pan, diverged from the gorilla's genus about seven million years ago.

Digitalis ( or ) is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves.

For a time during the first half of the 20th century the entire genus Entamoeba was transferred to Endamoeba, a genus of amoebas infecting invertebrates about which little is known.

Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to the Vulpes genus of " true foxes ".

The evolutionary development of the Komodo dragon started with the Varanus genus, which originated in Asia about 40 million years ago and migrated to Australia.

There is considerable confusion about the best way to classify felids at present, and some authorities classify them as part of the genus Felis.

Clerodendrum was once a genus of over 400 species, but by 2010, it had been narrowed to about 150.

Mimosa is a genus of about 400 species of herbs and shrubs, in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the legume family Fabaceae.

The largest genus by far is Prunus ( plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds ) with about 430 species.

Stevia (, or ) is a genus of about 240 species of herbs and shrubs in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae ), native to subtropical and tropical regions from western North America to South America.

Scorpions of the genus Scorpiops living in high Asian mountains, bothriurid scorpions from Patagonia and small Euscorpius scorpions from Central Europe can all survive winter temperatures of about.

Trillium ( trillium, wakerobin, tri flower, birthroot ) is a genus of about 40 – 50 species of spring ephemeral perennials, native to temperate regions of North America and Asia.

The word vanilla entered the English language in the 1754, when the botanist Philip Miller wrote about the genus in his Gardener ’ s Dictionary.