Prairie dogs ( genus Cynomys ) are burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America.

Anomalopus is the genus of worm-skinks, smallish smooth-scaled burrowing skinks ( family Scincidae ) from the eastern half of Australia.

The genus contains the single species Graciliscincus shonae ( Sadlier's skink or gracile burrowing skink ), found in New Caledonia.

Janetaescincus is a genus of burrowing skinks ( family Scincidae ) endemic to the Seychelles.

Those of the genus Tomopterna are burrowing frogs native to Africa and exhibit most of the characteristics common to burrowing frogs around the world.

The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ) also known as the sand puppy or desert mole rat, is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in the genus Heterocephalus.

The species of the genus Breviceps are burrowing frogs found in the arid regions of Africa.

Juscelinomys is a genus of burrowing mice.

" The only species, within the only genus of the family Rhinophrynidae, and with over 190 million years of independent evolution, the Mexican burrowing toad is the most evolutionarily distinct amphibian species on Earth today ; a fruit bat, polar bear, killer whale, kangaroo and human are all more similar to one another than this species is to any other amphibian.

Kielan-Jaworowska and colleagues described a p4 from the La Colonia Formation ( Late Cretaceous of Argentina ) as a new multituberculate genus, Argentodites, in 2007, but Gurovich and Beck noted close similarities between this p4 and the p4 in the possible jaw fragment of Ferugliotherium and suggested that it represented Ferugliotherium or a closely related species.

Another genus known from a single tooth ( in this case, a fourth lower premolar ), Argentodites, was first described as an unrelated multituberculate, but later identified as possibly related to Ferugliotherium.

* Iberica, an extinct genus of multituberculate from Spain

Angel Cabrera, in his 1932 monograph on the mammals of Morocco, briefly touched upon the question of whether or not the presence of a cingulum on the upper molars of the jackals and its corresponding absence in the rest of Canis could justify a subdivision of the genus Canis.

Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct.

Although the word jackal has been historically used to refer to many small-to medium-sized species of the wolf genus of mammals, Canis, today it most properly and commonly refers to three species: the black-backed jackal and the side-striped jackal of sub-Saharan Africa, and the golden jackal of northern Africa and south-central Eurasia.

Angel Cabrera, in his 1932 monograph on the mammals of Morocco, questioned whether or not the presence of a cingulum on the upper molars of the jackals and its corresponding absence in the rest of Canis could justify a subdivision of the genus Canis.

Manatees ( family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus ) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.

The fruit of the Piper plant, called a peppercorn when it is round and pea-sized, as is usual, is distributed in the wild mainly by birds, but small fruit-eating mammals – e. g. bats of the genus Carollia – are also important.

A good example of intrasexual selection, in which males fight for dominance over a harem of females, is the elephant seal-large, oceangoing mammals of the genus Mirounga.

Euchambersia a genus of Therocephalia ( animals close to the evolution of mammals ) is known to have had venom glands attached to its canine teeth, used to help subdue and kill its prey.

Weasels () are mammals forming the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family.

The genus Trichophilopterus is also found on mammals ( lemurs ) but probably belongs to the " avian Ischnocera " and represents a host switch from birds to mammals.

Echolocating animals include some mammals and a few birds ; most notably microchiropteran bats and odontocetes ( toothed whales and dolphins ), but also in simpler form in other groups such as shrews, one genus of megachiropteran bats ( Rousettus ) and two cave dwelling bird groups, the so-called cave swiftlets in the genus Aerodramus ( formerly Collocalia ) and the unrelated Oilbird Steatornis caripensis.

Acinonyx is a genus of mammals from the family Felidae.

Its extinct relative C. megalodon ( the disputed genus being either Carcharodon or Carcharocles ) was more than an order of magnitude larger, and is the largest predatory shark or fish of all time ( and possibly the largest predator in vertebrate history ); it preyed on whales and other marine mammals.

Ptilodus is a genus of mammals from the extinct order of Multituberculata, and lived during the Paleocene in North America.

Paracimexomys is a genus of extinct mammals in the also extinct Multituberculata order.

Xyronomys is an extinct genus of small mammals from the Paleocene of North America, with one species described and a second species is awaiting publication.

Baiotomeus is a genus of mammals from the extinct order of Multituberculata.

Kimbetohia is a genus of mammals from the extinct order Multituberculata.

Prochetodon is a genus of mammals from the extinct order Multituberculata.

Ferugliotherium is a genus of fossil mammals from the Campanian and / or Maastrichtian ( Late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago ) of Argentina in the family Ferugliotheriidae.

Procyon is a genus of nocturnal mammals, comprising three species commonly known as raccoons, in the family Procyonidae.

A small insectivorous bird, it is subject to predation by mammals, such as cats and mustelids, and birds, particularly hawks of the genus Accipiter.

The genus Allium includes some of the most widely used edible plants, such as onion and shallot ( varieties of Allium cepa ), garlic ( A. sativum and A. scordoprasum ), leek ( Allium ampeloprasum var.

Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.

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.

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.

If the latter, Amaryllis would be the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum, and a different name would have to be used for the genus discussed here.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.

He used a two-part naming scheme where the first name represented the genus and the second the species.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus.

* Euphoria, a genus name previously used for the longan and other trees

In some cases this is due to the dearth of fossils, in other cases it is due to the slight differences used to classify species in the Homo genus.

In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo and western grey kangaroo.

In some Middle-eastern countries, marjoram is synonymous with oregano, and there the names sweet marjoram and knotted marjoram are used to distinguish it from other plants of the genus Origanum.

Kola nuts ( genus Cola ) are notable for their high content of caffeine, and in past were commonly used for preparing of various cola drinks.

:* Populus is a genus used as a model in forest genetics and woody plant studies.

Some scientists, such as Adrian Lister, grouped all the species as one genus, the Alcinae, while others, such as Augusto Azzaroli, used the term " alces " for the living species, placing the fossile species into the subgenera " Cervalces " and " Libralces.

The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum.

One example of the use of prime numbers in nature is as an evolutionary strategy used by cicadas of the genus Magicicada.

Piper, the pepper plants or pepper vines ( a term used for certain Clematis in older times ), are an economically and ecologically important genus in the family Piperaceae.

Stone Age artifacts include tools used by humans and by their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporaneous genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus.

Tobacco is a name for any plant of the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family ( nightshade family ) and for the product manufactured from the leaf and used in cigars and cigarettes, snuff, and pipe and chewing tobacco.

The Schöninger Speere, eight wooden throwing spears from the Lower Paleolithic era, are thought to be the earliest known example of weapons used by the genus Homo.