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Example sentences for "distinct genus"

  • It may form a distinct genus, and is probably a native of South America.

  • Indeed the larvae of the whole of this tribe of moths, now separated into a distinct genus (Psyche, Schrank, Ochsenh.

  • Those Aphides that transpire a cottony excretion are now considered as belonging to a distinct genus, under the name of Myzoxyla.

  • Japanese species that it should be placed in a distinct genus, which he calls Neurotrichus.

  • But the former has been found in New Guinea, while the New Zealand bird is considered to form a distinct genus, Clitonyx; and the latter inhabits Tasmania, and was recorded from New Zealand through an error.

  • These far eastern Crayfishes, however, differ so much from the typical species of Astacus that they are now placed in a subgenus (sometimes regarded as a distinct genus), Cambaroides.

  • East of the Rockies, again, numerous species are found belonging to a distinct genus, Cambarus, which ranges from Canada to Central America and Cuba, and this genus is allied in certain respects to the Cambaroides of Eastern Asia.

  • No such form, however, has as yet been found in India, and in any case it is impossible to regard Alcyonella as a distinct genus.

  • On the surface of the sponge I have found a peculiar protozoon which resembles the European Trichodina spongillae in general structure but belongs, I think, to a distinct species, if not to a distinct genus.

  • These forms were given by Lamarck in 1816 the name Alcyonella, and there has been much dispute as to whether they represent a distinct genus, distinct species, or merely varieties or phases of more typical forms.

  • But the form of the bill and the character of the plumage seem to me to be so different that it will have to form a distinct genus.

  • On account of its two horns it has been proposed to separate it from the other Oriental species into a distinct genus, Ceratorhinus.

  • America (the last two being sometimes separated into a distinct genus, Elasmognathus, on account of the prolongation of the ossified mesethmoid), and T.

  • The African Wart Hog, genus Phacochoerus, is usually regarded as the type of a distinct genus of Pigs.

  • Sir Harry Johnston has lately given a brief account of a larger and more brilliantly coloured species from Uganda {305} which will probably prove to belong to a distinct genus.

  • As a shallow-water form, with certain differences in the claspers and in the tail, Chimaera colliei is sometimes placed in a distinct genus, Hydrolagus.

  • From the Bahamas comes the smallest, the type of a distinct genus, Asymmetron lucayanum, distinguished among other things by a projecting tail.


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