Definition of Genus chironomus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Chironomidae.

Exact synonyms: Chironomus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Chironomidae, Family Chironomidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chironomus

genus Chelonia
genus Chelydra
genus Chenopodium
genus Chilomastix
genus Chilomeniscus
genus Chilomycterus
genus Chilopsis
genus Chimaera
genus Chimaphila
genus Chimonanthus
genus Chinchilla
genus Chinchona
genus Chiococca
genus Chionanthus
genus Chirocephalus
genus Chironomus
genus Chiton
genus Chlamydera
genus Chlamydia
genus Chlamydomonas
genus Chlamydosaurus
genus Chlamyphorus
genus Chloranthus
genus Chlorella
genus Chloris
genus Chlorococcum
genus Chlorophis
genus Chlorophoneus
genus Chlorophyllum
genus Chloroxylon

Literary usage of Genus chironomus

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

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"It is a remarkable fact that these physiological capacities differ greatly within the limits of the one genus, Chironomus, for some of these species are ..."

2. Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of by Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson (1833)
"The species of the genus Chironomus, more especially, are often seen in our own country dancing in the sunbeams even during the depth of winter, ..."

3. Handbook of Instructions for Collectors by British Museum (Natural History) (1902)
"... those of the genus Chironomus being aquatic or living in the soil or in droppings (the well-known " blood-worm," so common in rain-water, ..."

4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"They are a host; indeed, the typical genus Chironomus is a host in itself. Their larvae (Fig. 1384), with no better apparatus than a few blood gills at the ..."

5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1896)
"belonging to the genus Chironomus but it cannot be referred to any of the described species and the present state of the classification of this genus is ..."

6. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Of these the genus Chironomus is economically the most important. One species occurs at the lake in untold billions. Late in September and early in October, ..."

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