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This genus is named after Pleione, mother of the Pleiades ( in Greek mythology ) and comprises about 20 species.
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The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.
Thelymitra is an example of a genus where the lower petal is similar in appearance to the other petals.
Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.
The genus Cyanastrum is sometimes placed in its own family Cyanastraceae.
The most conspicuous genus in the family is Aloe.
Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.
For example, Pyrethrum ( refers to several Old World plants of the genus Chrysanthemum ) is a natural insecticide with minimal environmental impact.
Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.
The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.
Allieae contains only one genus Allium ( Milula is merged with Allium in the latest systems ).
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
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.
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.
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 type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
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.
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* 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.
Bacterial genus Escherichia ( for example, Escherichia coli ) was named after him in 1919, eight years after his death.
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.
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.
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In 1816, in the third volume of Lorenz Oken's Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, the author found sufficient similarities in the dentition of coyotes and jackals to place these species into a new separate genus from Canis called Thos after the classical Greek word θώς ( jackal ).
In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.
Similarities between jackals and coyotes led Lorenz Oken, in 1816, in the third volume of his Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, to place these species into a new separate genus, Thos, after the classical Greek word " jackal ", but his theory had little immediate impact on taxonomy at the time.
Orrorin tugenensis is considered to be the second-oldest ( after Sahelanthropus ) known hominin ancestor that is possibly related to modern humans, and it is the only species classified in genus Orrorin.
The genus was named after a former slave from Surinam, Graman Quassi in the eighteenth century.
Scopolamine is named after the plant genus Scopolia.
Shortly after, the formation of ascospores was observed and the genus Dekkera, which reproduces sexually ( teleomorph form ), was introduced as part of the taxonomy.
Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him, Banksia.
He gave the species, known locally as " talauma ", the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol.
The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt the genus name Magnolia.
* On October 28th, 2011 the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas announced it was naming a new species of the dinosaur genus Pachyrhinosaurus after the Perot family.
If the mother cloud retains much of its original form after the appearance of the new genus, it is termed a genitus cloud.
A 2008 study of the genetics of Trogon suggested the genus originated in Central America and radiated into South America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama ( as part of the Great American Interchange ), thus making trogons relatively recent arrivals in South America.
Plant genus Averrhoa was named after him.
The genus of plants Bauhinia was named after the brothers.
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