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Definition of Genus Teredo
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Teredinidae.
Group relationships: Family Teredinidae, Teredinidae
Member holonyms: Teredo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Teredo
Literary usage of Genus Teredo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1886)
"Henceforth the right of this mud or sand borer to a place in the genus Teredo
and family ... next to genus Teredo is a specimen marked ..."
2. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"M. Deshayes states that the calcareous tubes which bear this name in Lamarck's
collection belong without exception to the genus Teredo. ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"The genus Teredo seems to require a rigid revision. ... The genus Teredo will I
believe be included in the 1st part of their ' History of British Mollusca,' ..."
4. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands by New York Academy of Sciences (1920)
"The mold measures 90 mm. in length, 70 mm. in altitude and 76 mm. in diameter.
Locality.—Near Arecibo, Station. genus Teredo Linnaeus Teredo incrassata ..."
5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"The subsequent discovery of two boring shells and two flattened opercula,
sufficiently evinced that the shell here treated of belonged to the genus Teredo; ..."
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