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Athabascasaurus

The generic name is derived from the name of the Athabasca River, which runs through Athabasca oil sands area where the holotype was collected, and sauros, Greek for "lizard".

Barreirosuchus

The generic name is derived from the name of the rural district of Barreiro, where the holotype was found, and Greek souchus meaning "crocodile".

Bellubrunnus

The generic name is derived from the Latin bellus meaning 'beautiful' and brunnus in reference to Brunn, its type locality.

Benhamina obliquata

Generic name Benhamina is in tribute to British oligo- and polychaetologist, William Blaxland Benham.

Gandheralophus

The generic name is derived from Gandhera, referring to Gandhera Quarry, the locality in which the genus was first reported, and Greek lophus, "crest", a common

Helcionopsis

The generic name is from the external resemblance which the genus bear to the recent species of the genus Helcion in family Patellidae.

Magnapaulia

The generic name is a combination of the Latin magnus, "large", and the first name of Paul G. Haaga, Jr., the president of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Mercurana

The generic name was derived from and given as a tribute to Freddie Mercury, the late vocalist of the British rock band Queen, in combination with the Latin name for "frog" (Rana, which is also the name of the most common frog genus).

Navajodactylus

The generic name honors the Navajo Nation, combining their name with a Greek δάκτυλος, daktylos, "finger".

Niassodon

The generic name combines the word Niassa, meaning "lake" in Chiyao and the name of the northwestern province in Mozambique where Niassodon was found, with odontos, meaning "tooth" in Ancient Greek.

Owenia

Owenia is the generic name of two groups of organisms.

Palaeohatteria

The generic name is derived from Greek παλαιός (palaios) "old, ancient", and from Hatteria, a proposed common name and generic name (like Rhynchocephalus) to the Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).

Sophineta

The generic name honors Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska of the Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, and it is derived from Greek sophia, meaning "wisdom" which is the classical root of the name Zofia.

Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy

In Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Health requested Prof. Seneka Bibile to look into his matter and he prepared the Ceylon Hospital Formulary (CHF) of about 630 drugs under their generic names.

Triphora

Triphora is the generic name of two groups of organisms.

Yongjinglong

The generic name is derived from the name of the historical Yongjing County, near where the holotype of Yongjinglong and numerous dinosaur track fossils were collected, and from long, meaning "dragon" in Chinese.


see also

+Crataegomespilus

+Crataegomespilus is the generic name applied to graft-chimeras between the genera Crataegus and Mespilus.

×Crataemespilus

×Crataemespilus (or Cratae-mespilus) is the generic name applied to hybrids between the genera Crataegus and Mespilus.

Aarabia

The generic name is derived from the locality close to Jbel ben Aarab, near Azrou in Central Morocco.

Achelousaurus

The generic name Achelousaurus is a complex reference to Greek mythology.

Alangium villosum subsp. polyosmoides

The generic name is from the Malabar people, being their name of the related Asian species, Alangium decapetalum.

Banksia speciosa

In 1891, German botanist Otto Kuntze challenged the generic name Banksia L.f., on the grounds that the name Banksia had previously been published in 1775 as Banksia J.R.Forst & G.Forst, referring to the genus now known as Pimelea.

Black Movement of Brazil

Movimento Negro (or Black Movement) is a generic name given to the diverse Afro-Brazilian social movements that occurred in 20th-century Brazil, particularly those movements that appeared in post-World War II Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Boettgerilla

The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger.

Borogovia

The generic name is derived from the fantasy creatures known as 'borogoves' in the Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky, part of his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Buddleja

The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), a botanist and rector in Essex, England, at the suggestion of Dr. William Houstoun.

Cassytha

An unfortunate consequence has been that the homonym Cassytha Mill. (1768) is often mentioned as a synonym of the genus Rhipsalis, although this perception is incorrect, since the generic name Cassytha had already been applied to a completely different genus in a different plant family.

Choisya

In its generic name Humboldt and Bonpland honoured Swiss botanist Jacques Denis Choisy (1799-1859).

Cimoliopterus

The generic name combines Κιμωλία, Kimolia, the white clay of the island Kimolos (kimolia means "chalk" in New Greek) with a Latinised Greek πτερόν, pteron, "wing".

Clappia

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.

Dahlella

The generic name Dahlella commemorates the biologist Erik Dahl of the University of Lund.

Damalborea

According to Gentry (2010), the generic name "indicates an alcelaphine of the north" (differentiating it from Damalacra, the fossils of which were discovered near the Cape of Good Hope), while the specific name honors Elisabeth Vrba.

Dipogon bifasciatus

The generic name, Dipogon, refers to the tufts of forward-pointing bristles on the maxilla of the female the purpose of which is to pack the nest entrance with old spider silk.

Eucosmophora manilkarae

The specific name is derived from the generic name, Manilkara, one of two principal larval hosts.

Eucosmophora pouteriae

The specific name is derived from the generic name, Pouteria, of the only recorded larval host.

Europejara

The generic name combines the names of Europe and the related genus Tapejara, in reference to the fact that Europejara is the first tapejarid found in that continent.

Fali of Mubi

It is one of several languages in the area that go by the generic name Fali.

Fallotaspis

The generic name, Fallotaspis, is a compound crassis word that honors Paul Fallot (1889-1960), a French paleontologist who researched Cambrian fossils in Spain, in combination with the Greek word ἀσπίς, aspis, meaning shield.

Leslie Pedley

He is notable for bringing into use the generic name Racosperma, foreshadowing a split in the genus with the Australian species requiring to be renamed.

Lexovisaurus

The generic name is derived from the Lexovii, a Gallic tribe in ancient times inhabiting the region of Normandy, where several stegosaurian specimens had been discovered which by Hoffstetter were referred to Lexovisaurus.

Litargosuchus

The fossils was re-described in 2002 by James Clark and Hans-Dieter Sues, who erected a new generic name for the specimen.

Maesiella

The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.

Maesiella maesae

The generic name Maesiella as well as the specific name maesae are named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.

Megacyllene robiniae

The specific name, robiniae, is derived from the New Latin name, Robinia, which is the generic name of the black locust tree, Robinia pseudacacia, on which the larvae feed.

Mesorhinosuchus

Thus, an alternative generic name, Mesorhinosuchus, was proposed by Oskar Kuhn in 1961.

Microceratus

However, the generic name was already preoccupied by an ichneumon wasp (subfamily Gelinae) with the same name.

Microtuban

The generic name is derived from Greek μικρός, mikros, "little", and Arab التنين, tuban, "dragon" or basilisk, also referring to Thuban, the ancient Polar Star in the constellation Draco.

Minotaurasaurus

The generic name is explained by the describers as meaning "man-bull reptile"; the specific epithet honours Vilayanur S. Ramachandran who purchased the fossil for $10,000 from the trader Hollis Butts, based in Japan, and made it available to science.

Moonlight cactus

The generic name is derived from Σελήνη (Selene), the Greek moon goddess, and cereus, meaning "candle" in Latin, referring to the nocturnal flowers.

Muzquizopteryx

The generic name is derived from the Múzquiz district and a Greek πτέρυξ, pteryx, "wing".

Ohmdenosaurus

The generic name refers to Ohmden, a town in Baden-Württemberg near the quarry the remains were probably found in.

Paphinia

The generic name comes from the Greek Paphia, the name of Aphrodite of Cyprus.

Podokesaurus

The generic name Podokesaurus is derived from Greek word podokes (ποδοκες) meaning "swift-footed", an epitheton often used by Homer in the Iliad to describe the hero Achilles, and sauros (σαυρος) meaning "lizard"; thus "swift-footed lizard".

Proteomyxa

At least two species of Pseudospora have been taken for reproductive stages in the life history of their hostswhence indeed the generic name.

Rhea Silvia

Carsten Niebuhr proposed that the name Rhea Silvia came from Rea, meaning guilty, and Silvia meaning of the forest and so assumed that Rhea Silvia was a generic name for the guilty woman of the forest, i.e. the woman who had been seduced there.

Shokawa

The generic name refers to the village of Shokawa, located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, while the specific name honors the collector of the first specimen, one Mr. Ikoi Shibata.

South Polar Skua

Megalestris Hill, on Petermann Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago of Antarctica, is named after an obsolete generic name for the South Polar Skua.

Subgenus

In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea (Cypraea) tigris Linnaeus, which belongs to the subgenus Cypraea of the genus Cypraea.

Swiss cheese

Swiss cheese is a generic name for several related varieties of North American cheese which resemble Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, in Switzerland.

Timimus

The generic name means "Tim's Mimic" and combines the name of both the discoverers' son Timothy Rich and palaeontologist Tim Flannery with a Latin mimus, "mimic", a reference to the presumed affinity of the species with the Ornithomimosauria.

Type genus

:Example: "Poa is the type genus of the family Poaceae and of the order Poales" is another way of saying that the names Poaceae and Poales are based on the generic name Poa.

Wright Gemini

Wright Gemini is a generic name for a style of low-floor double-deck bus bodywork built by Wright.

Zuolong

The generic name honours General Zuo Zongtang, who secured Xinjiang for China in the nineteenth century.