Definition of Genus Lepas

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.

Exact synonyms: Lepas
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Lepadidae, Lepadidae
Member holonyms: Goose Barnacle, Gooseneck Barnacle, Lepas Fascicularis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lepas

genus Leiophyllum
genus Leipoa
genus Leishmania
genus Leitneria
genus Lemaireocereus
genus Lemna
genus Lemur
genus Lens
genus Lentinus
genus Leonotis
genus Leontideus
genus Leontocebus
genus Leontodon
genus Leontopodium
genus Leonurus
genus Lepas (current term)
genus Lepechinia
genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena
genus Leptinotarsa
genus Leptodactylus
genus Leptoglossus

Literary usage of Genus Lepas

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

1. The Barnacles (Cirripedia): Contained in the Collections of the U. S by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Subfamily » Genus LEPAS Linnaeus. 1758. Lepas LINNAEUS (part) Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 667." 1851. DARWIN, Monograph on the Cirripedia, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The fecundity in the genus Lepas has struck many observers. ... Willemoes Suhm supposed, to Lepas australis, or even to the genus Lepas at all. ..."

3. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1846)
"... Bl. This family consists of the same animals which constitute the Pedunculated Cirripedes of Lamarck, and part of the genus Lepas in the system of ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1845)
"... genus Lepas is equivalent to almost the entire class, he having, in his Systema Naturae, only one other genus, containing a single species, ..."

5. More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1903)
"Linnaeus gives no type to his genus Lepas, though L. balanus comes first. Several oldish authors have used Lepas exclusively for the pedunculate division, ..."

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