Definition of Genus ommastrephes

1. Noun. A genus of Decapoda.

Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Decapoda, Order Decapoda
Member holonyms: Ommastrephes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ommastrephes

genus Odontaspis
genus Odontoglossum
genus Odontophorus
genus Oecanthus
genus Oedogonium
genus Oenanthe
genus Oenothera
genus Oestrus
genus Okapia
genus Olea
genus Oleandra
genus Olearia
genus Olfersia
genus Oligoplites
genus Oligoporus
genus Ommastrephes
genus Omphalotus
genus Onchorynchus
genus Oncidium
genus Ondatra
genus Oniscus
genus Onobrychis
genus Onoclea
genus Ononis
genus Onopordon
genus Onopordum
genus Onosmodium
genus Onychium
genus Onychogalea
genus Onychomys

Literary usage of Genus ommastrephes

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

1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical by Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"It states that a specimen has recently been captured there of a large cephalopod of the genus Ommastrephes found in the adjacent seas. ..."

2. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"... D'Orb. Genus OMMASTREPHES, D'Orbigny. Tentacular and sessile arms with cups and horny rings. Fins rhombic, posterior, caudal. ..."

3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1881)
"He was at first inclined to refer this Cuttlefish to the genus Ommastrephes, but, on further consideration, ni;ik.\s it the type of a new genus, ..."

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