Definition of Genus Loligo

1. Noun. Squids.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Loligo

genus Lithophragma
genus Lithops
genus Litocranius
genus Littorina
genus Livistona
genus Loasa
genus Lobelia
genus Lobipes
genus Lobotes
genus Lobularia
genus Locusta
genus Lofortyx
genus Logania
genus Loiseleuria
genus Loligo (current term)
genus Lolium
genus Lomatia
genus Lomogramma
genus Lonas
genus Lonchocarpus
genus Lonicera
genus Lophius
genus Lophodytes
genus Lopholatilus
genus Lophophora
genus Lophophorus
genus Lophosoria
genus Loranthus
genus Loris

Literary usage of Genus Loligo

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

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... Cephalopods either of the genus Loligo or Sepia, there would no doubt be some remains of the dorsal shell of the Sepia, or of the dorsal glade of the ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"According to STEENSTRUP, this resemblance in development is due rather to the fact that they all belong to the genus Loligo, and theoretical conclusions ..."

3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"... between the environal organs—especially the arms with varied functions—and the greatly enlarged "brain" of the comparatively recent genus Loligo. ..."

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