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Definition of Genus Patella
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Patellidae, Patellidae
Member holonyms: Common Limpet, Patella Vulgata
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Patella
Literary usage of Genus Patella
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)
"Genus PATELLA Linnaeus. PATELLA GRANATINA Linnaeus. The United States National
Museum contains eight lots of this species from the Cape of Good Hope, ..."
2. The Sea-side Book: Being an Introduction to the Natural History of the by William Henry Harvey (1849)
"... genus Patella. Conchology, within a few years, has made more advances in a
philosophical direction than most of the other natural sciences. ..."
3. Bermuda: Its History, Geology, Climate, Products, Agriculture, Commerce, and by Theodore L. Godet (1860)
"... —Genus patella (or Limpets)—P. pellucida—Genus Chiton—C. marginatus—Ace- phala—A.
testacea—Genus Ostrea (the Oyster)—0. folium— 0. crista galli—0. ..."
4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and by William Nicholson (1821)
"... and its being inhabited by an animal totally different from that of the Patella,
has induced Lamarck thus to separate it from tlie genus Patella. ..."
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