The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

This fossil was originally described as a species of Australopithecus, but White and his colleagues later published a note in the same journal renaming the fossil under a new genus, Ardipithecus.

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

After this initial chemotherapeutic compound proved effective, others pursued similar lines of inquiry, but it was not until in 1928 that Alexander Fleming observed antibiosis against bacteria by a fungus of the genus Penicillium.

Bacterial genus Escherichia ( for example, Escherichia coli ) was named after him in 1919, eight years after his death.

The term bean originally referred to the seed of the broad or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.

Yersin named it Pasteurella pestis in honor of the Pasteur Institute, where he worked, but in 1967 it was moved to a new genus, renamed Yersinia pestis in honor of Yersin.

The genus Bacillus was coined in 1835 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg ( who coined the genus Bacterium seven years prior ) to contain rod-shaped bacteria, later amended by Ferdinand Cohn to spore-forming, Gram-positive / variable, rod-shaped bacteria.

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.

The zebrafish was referred to in literature as Brachydanio rerio for many years until its reassignment to the genus Danio.

He discovered that the intestines of Triatomidae ( now Reduviidae: Triatominae ) harbored a flagellate protozoan, a new species of the Trypanosoma genus, and was able to prove experimentally that it could be transmitted to marmoset monkeys that were bitten by the infected bug.

Chagas was also the first to unknowingly discover and illustrate the parasitic fungal genus Pneumocystis, later infamously linked to PCP ( Pneumocystis pneumonia in AIDS victims ).

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent reviews of phylogenetic research have placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.

Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of.

The genus Entamoeba was defined by Casagrandi and Barbagallo for the species Entamoeba coli, which is known to be a commensal organism.

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.

It was considered to be the first species of the genus Homo until May 2010, when a new species, Homo gautengensis was discovered in South Africa, that most likely arose earlier than Homo habilis.

* Avicennia, a genus of mangrove named after Ibn Sīnā

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

He identified the mould as being from the Penicillium genus, and, after some months of calling it " mould juice ", named the substance it released penicillin on 7 March 1929.

In botany the Circaea are plants belonging to the enchanter's nightshade genus named from her.

Diprotodon skull, clearly showing the large front teeth for which the genus is named and the dentition adapted for Browsing ( predation ) | browsing

Phacopid trilobite Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata, the genus is named after Niles Eldredge

In 1915, Walter T. Swingle reclassified them in a segregate genus, Fortunella, named in honor of Robert Fortune.

Also, a genus of lichen has been named Zamenhofia rosei in his honour.

The great Swedish botanist Linnaeus named the genus Malpighia in honor of Marcello Malpighi's work on plants ; Malpighia is the type genus for the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.

The great Swedish botanist Linnaeus named the genus Malpighia in honor of Malpighi ’ s work with plants ; Malpighia is the type genus for the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.

Oregano ( or ), scientifically named Origanum vulgare by Carolus Linnaeus, is a common species of Origanum, a genus of the mint family ( Lamiaceae ).

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.

The genus Alpinia, belonging to the order Zingiberaceae ( Ginger Family ), was named after him by Linnaeus.

The genus now known as Pterodactylus was originally named Petro-Dactyle by Cuvier in 1809, though this was a typographical error, later corrected by him to Ptéro-Dactyle.

In 1871, Marsh named the find Pterodactlyus Oweni, assigning it to the well-known ( but much smaller ) European genus Pterodactylus.

Based on these specimens, Cope named two new species, Ornithochirus umbrosus and Ornithochirus harpyia, in an attempt to assign them to the large European genus Ornithocheirus.

Cope conceded in 1875 that Marsh's names did have priority over his, but maintained that Pterodactylus umbrosus was a distinct species ( but not genus ) from any that Marsh had named previously.

He soon realized his mistake, and re-classified that specimen into a separate genus, which he named Nyctosaurus.

He placed P. sternbergi into the genus named by Miller, Geosternbergia, along with the Pierre Shale skull specimen which Bennett had previously considered to be a large male P. longiceps.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.

Ardipithecus is a fossil hominoid, described by its discoverers as a very early hominin genus.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

The pacas ( genus Cuniculus ) are placed by some authorities ( Woods, 1993 ; McKenna and Bell, 1997 ) in the Dasyproctidae, but molecular studies have demonstrated that they do not form a monophyletic group ( Rowe and Honeycutt, 2002 ).

Hybrids said to be between Amaryllis belladonna and Brunsvigia josephinae have been called × Amarygia, Neither hybrid genus name is accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.

These include, for example, the beta-lactam antibacterials, which include the penicillins ( produced by fungi in the genus Penicillium ), the cephalosporins, and the carbapenems.

Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix " ine " to the species or genus name.

In Aristotle, substances are to be clarified by stating their definition: a note expressing a larger class ( the genus ) followed by further notes expressing specific differences ( differentiae ) within the class.

Bluetongue is caused by the pathogenic virus, Bluetongue virus ( BTV ), of the genus Orbivirus, of the Reoviridae family.

Scientific classification in botany is a method by which botanists group and categorize organisms by biological type, such as genus or species.

Fossil remains of beavers are found in the peat and other superficial deposits of Britain and the continent of Europe ; while in the Pleistocene formations of Britain and Siberia, remains of a giant extinct beaver have been found, Trogontherium cuvieri, representing a genus by itself.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.