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Definition of Genus Lepas

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Lepadidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lepas

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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