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4 unusual facts about Genus


Kenneth L. Schroeder

Schroeder has been a member of the Board of Directors of KLA-Tencor, Adept Technology, Photon Dynamics, Gasonics (now a division of (Novellus), Genus, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute (SEMI) and Semi-Sematech.

Mario Crocco

Genus and species: Gillevinia straata (in honor of Gilbert Levin and Patricia Straat, who conducted the original Viking experiments)

Owenia

Owenia is the generic name of two groups of organisms.

Triphora

Triphora is the generic name of two groups of organisms.


Adder's tongue

Erythronium (also known as Fawn Lily, Trout Lily, or Dog's-tooth Violet), a genus of lilies

Advenella kashmirensis

Advenella kashmirensis is a chemolithotrophic mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, bacterium from the genus of Advenella which was isolated from the soil of a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir in India.

Anatrachyntis terminella

The larvae have been recorded in deserted nests of wasps of the Polistes genus, galls on flower buds of Acacia binervata, egg sacs of the spider Nephila edulis as well as dead insects and dead leaves.

Anna Pavlovna of Russia

The genus of trees Paulownia was coined by a Dutch botanist named Siebold to honour Anna Pavlovna.

Arbor vitae

Arborvitae, Thuja, a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family

Bellendena

However, the genus has an anatomical feature, laterocytic stomata (having 3 or more parallel specialised subsidiary cells), which it shares with the Platanaceae (next closest relatives to the Proteaceae) and no other Proteaceae, which indicate it diverged from all other members of the family first.

Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium, Zobel, 1854, is a fungus genus belonging to the family Dematiaceae.

Branislav Petronijević

As a scientist, he was the first to distinguish between the genus Archaeopteryx and the genus Archaeornis; he also discovered new characteristics of the genera Tritylodon and Moeritherium.

C. fenestrata

Cotinusa fenestrata, Taczanowski, 1878, a jumping spider species in the genus Cotinusa found in Peru

David de Gorter

Later, Linnaeus named the plant genus Gorteria after David de Gorter and his father, the physician Johannes de Gorter.

Dibothrosuchus

After reexamination of the holotype Wu and Chatterjee found D. xingsuensis to be a synonym of D. elaphros, leaving only one species in the genus.

Diphasiastrum

The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, in much of the Northern Hemisphere, south in mountains to South America (reaching furthest south in Jujuy Province, northwest Argentina), New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, but confined to climates with high humidity for most or all of the year (or, in cool climates, protected by snow cover in winter).

Diploschizia seminolensis

Diploschizia seminolensis is a species of sedge moths in the genus Diploschizia.

Elegant Tit

The species was formerly included in the much larger genus Parus, and some authorities have suggested that along with the closely related Palawan Tit and Yellow-bellied Tit it should be placed in a new genus, Pardaliparus.

Escadabiidae

The name of the type genus Escadabius is combined from the type locality Escada (Pernambuco, Brazil, and Ancient Greek bios "living".

Eucalypt

Eucalyptus deglupta has naturally spread the furthest from its Eucalyptus genus Australian geographic origins, as the only species known growing naturally in the nearby northern hemisphere, from New Guinea to New Britain, Sulawesi, Seram Island to Mindanao, Philippines.

Eulima franquiae

The species is one of multiple known species to exist within the genus, Eulima.

Euodia

the name by which trees of the genus Tetradium are known in cultivation in English-speaking countries

Fumaria occidentalis

Fumaria occidentalis, the western ramping-fumitory, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Fumaria that is endemic to Cornwall.

Funk Brothers Seed Co. v. Kalo Inoculant Co.

These bacteria include six species of the genus Rhizobium.

Giant Malleefowl

It was described from Plio-Pleistocene deposits at the Darling Downs and Chinchilla in south-east Queensland by Charles De Vis, who erected the genus Progura for it.

Ginkgo

Given the slow pace of evolution and morphological similarity between members of the genus, there may have been only one or two species existing in the Northern Hemisphere through the entirety of the Cenozoic: present-day G. biloba (including G. adiantoides) and G. gardneri from the Palaeocene of Scotland.

Glehn

Glehnia, a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn

Glyphipterix argyrelata

Glyphipterix argyrelata is a species of sedge moths in the genus Glyphipterix.

Glyphipterix calliscopa

Glyphipterix calliscopa is a species of sedge moths in the genus Glyphipterix.

Glyphipterix chionosoma

Glyphipterix chionosoma is a species of sedge moths in the genus Glyphipterix.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

H. diptera

Hoya diptera (Seemann, 1896), a waxplant species in the genus Hoya native to the Fiji Islands

Ian Brooker

He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus Eucalyptus.

Ichthyoallyeinotoxism

The species most commonly claimed to be capable of producing this kind of toxicity include several species from the Kyphosus genus, including Kyphosus fuscus, K. cinerascens and K. vaigiensis.

Kleinella

This genus nearly resembles Actaeon, but without any fold on the columella; the umbilicus, moreover, is wide and deep, and the surface of the shell is cancellated.

Latouchella

Latouchella was a type genus in the family Latouchellidae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1989, however Latouchellidae is a synonym of Coreospiridae.

Leafcutter ant

In addition to feeding the fungal garden with foraged food, mainly consisting of leaves, it is protected from Escovopsis by the antibiotic secretions of Actinobacteria (genus Pseudonocardia).

Leek moth

The leek moth or onion leaf miner (Acrolepiopsis assectella) is a species of moths of family Acrolepiidae, genus Acrolepiopsis, a pest of leek crops.

Lesser seed-finch

The lesser seed-finches are two species of Thraupids in the genus Oryzoborus.

Minia

Munia (also called a "minia"), a bird of the genus Lonchura

Motagua Valley thornscrub

The vegetation consists mainly of thorny species such as cactus of the genus Opuntia, acacias, and thorny bushes of the Fabaceae family.

Paracladopelma

Paracladopelma is a genus of Palearctic and Nearctic non-biting midges in the subfamily Chironominae of the bloodworm family Chironomidae.

Peter Schousboe

Among the plants that he was the first to describe was the popular garden flower Salvia interrupta; the bushwillow genus Schousboea (now considered a synonym of Combretum) was named in his honour.

Phaethusa

:This article is about the Greek Goddess, for the bird genus see Large-billed Tern.

Protocalliphora

The genus is affected by Wolbachia bacteria and it has been suggested that horizontal gene transfer may have led to the difficulty in separating species of Protocalliphora through DNA fingerprinting, with several species possessing identical mtDNA Cytochrome oxidase I sequences.

Puff adder

Heterodon, a genus of harmless North American colubrid snakes

Pyrolaceae

It included the four genera Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia, and Pyrola, and sometimes also the eight genera formerly usually placed in the family Monotropaceae.

Rissa

Red-legged Kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris), a species in the genus Rissa

Rosewood

The woods of some other species in the genus Dalbergia are notable—even famous—woods in their own right: African Blackwood, Cocobolo, Kingwood, and Tulipwood.

Strawberry tree

Arbutus, the genus in the Ericaceae family to which Arbutus unedo belongs, native to Europe and temperate North America

Thilo Irmisch

His friend and former teacher von Schlechtendal named the genus Irmischia, which was soon synonymized with Metastelma (Apocynaceae).

Tolmiea

The genus was named after the Scottish-Canadian botanist William Fraser Tolmie, while the species name refers to Archibald Menzies, the Scottish naturalist for the Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795).

USS Pargo

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Pargo, named in honor of the pargo, a fish of the genus Lutjanus found in the West Indies.


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