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Definition of Genus haliotis

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Haliotidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Haliotis

Literary usage of Genus haliotis

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

1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"... USNM, contains two additional specimens of the same species (Coll. No. 1032). Family HALIOTIDAE. Genus HALIOTIS Linnaeus. ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... genus Haliotis has not suffered any ' has indeed been made by Montfort to ... Cuvier : but he makes it consist but of one genus, Haliotis, Linn. ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... the genus Haliotis has not suffered any-dismemberments. "An attempt," continues Mr. Sowerby, " has indeed been made by Montfort to separate from the ..."

4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and by William Nicholson (1821)
"... been disposed rather to have replaced it among the Patellae: but Lamarck has thought it right to consider it as a species of a distinct genus. Haliotis. ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A family of gastropods, typified by the genus Haliotis, containing the sea- ears, ear-shells, abalones, ..."

6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Haliotis comprises the so-called " ear-shells," distinguished by their ear-shaped shell, with a minute spire, an enormous aperture, ..."

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