Definition of Genus Lamna

1. Noun. A genus of Lamnidae.

Exact synonyms: Lamna
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lamnidae, Lamnidae
Member holonyms: Lamna Nasus, Porbeagle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lamna

genus Lagenaria
genus Lagenophera
genus Lagerstroemia
genus Lagidium
genus Lagodon
genus Lagopus
genus Lagorchestes
genus Lagostomus
genus Lagothrix
genus Laguncularia
genus Lama
genus Lambertia
genus Lambis
genus Laminaria
genus Lamium
genus Lamna (current term)
genus Lampris
genus Lampropeltis
genus Languas
genus Lanius
genus Lansium
genus Lanthanotus
genus Laportea
genus Lappula
genus Lardizabala
genus Larix
genus Larrea
genus Larus
genus Lasiocampa
genus Lasiurus

Literary usage of Genus Lamna

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

1. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1856)
"Lamna complanata, Eg.—The occurrence of a small lateral cusp in some of the specimens of this species marks it as belonging to the genus Lamna, although in ..."

2. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of by University of California (1868-1952) (1910)
"The genus Lamna is known from Isurus by the presence of one or two small denticles at the base of a flexuous tooth, the edges of which are entire. ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"... the species being absorbed in the genus Lamna, which is thus defined : " Dentition only differing from that of Odontaspis in the relatively less ..."

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