Definition of Genus Haliotis

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Haliotidae.

Exact synonyms: Haliotis
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Haliotidae, Haliotidae
Member holonyms: Abalone, Ear-shell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Haliotis

genus Haematopus
genus Haematoxylon
genus Haematoxylum
genus Haemodorum
genus Haemopis
genus Haemoproteus
genus Haemulon
genus Hakea
genus Halcyon
genus Haldea
genus Halenia
genus Halesia
genus Haliaeetus
genus Halicoeres
genus Halimodendron
genus Haliotis (current term)
genus Halocarpus
genus Halogeton
genus Hamamelidanthum
genus Hamamelidoxylon
genus Hamamelis
genus Hamamelites
genus Hamelia
genus Haminoea
genus Haplopappus
genus Hardenbergia
genus Harpia
genus Harpullia
genus Harrisia
genus Hatiora

Literary usage of Genus Haliotis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"... USNM, contains two additional specimens of the same species (Coll. No. 1032). Family HALIOTIDAE. Genus HALIOTIS Linnaeus. ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... genus Haliotis has not suffered any ' has indeed been made by Montfort to ... Cuvier : but he makes it consist but of one genus, Haliotis, Linn. ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... the genus Haliotis has not suffered any-dismemberments. "An attempt," continues Mr. Sowerby, " has indeed been made by Montfort to separate from the ..."

4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and by William Nicholson (1821)
"... been disposed rather to have replaced it among the Patellae: but Lamarck has thought it right to consider it as a species of a distinct genus. Haliotis. ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A family of gastropods, typified by the genus Haliotis, containing the sea- ears, ear-shells, abalones, ..."

6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Haliotis comprises the so-called " ear-shells," distinguished by their ear-shaped shell, with a minute spire, an enormous aperture, ..."

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