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Definition of Genus fungia

1. Noun. A genus comprising the usual mushroom corals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fungia

Literary usage of Genus fungia

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... of zoological nomenclature, but his work is earnest and he has much advanced our knowledge of the genus Fungia. I am glad to see that Mr. Gardiner ..."

2. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Elliott Coues (1884)
"... rounded body of calcareous nature, in the interior of which there are radiating partitions passing from centre to circumference, as in the genus Fungia. ..."

3. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"The genus Fungia is not found in West Indian shallow waters, but the various figures by Dana (1846), Bourne (1887,1893), and Saville-Kent (1893), ..."

4. Corals and Coral Islands by James Dwight Dana (1890)
"These corals, of the genus Fungia, often exceed a foot in length; and thus coral animals are sometimes as large as the largest of ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... Parts I. and II. of his ' Madreporaria' of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes.tf Doderlein has published an excellent memoir on the genus ' Fungia. ..."

6. Transactions of the Linnean Societyby Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society of London Library by Linnean Society of London, Linnean Society of London Library (1867)
"204 Stutchbury, S. An account of the mode of growth of young corals of the genus Fungia xvi. 493 (C. cristatus) xvii. 301 . Description of a new species of ..."

7. The Atoll of Funafuti: Borings Into a Coral Reef and the Results, Being the by Thomas George Bonney (1904)
"genus fungia, DANA. This genus is represented by casts and fragments in the Main, First, and Lagoon Borings. It appears in the Main Boring at the depth of ..."

8. Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ: A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts by Louis Agassiz (1854)
"—Trans. Linn. Soc. 1837, XVII. p. 361. 4. An Account of the mode of Growth of young Corals of the genus Fungia.—Trans. Linn. Soc. ..."

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