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Definition of Genus ommastrephes
1. Noun. A genus of Decapoda.
Group relationships: Decapoda, Order Decapoda
Member holonyms: Ommastrephes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ommastrephes
Literary usage of Genus ommastrephes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical by Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"It states that a specimen has recently been captured there of a large cephalopod
of the genus Ommastrephes found in the adjacent seas. ..."
2. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"... D'Orb. Genus OMMASTREPHES, D'Orbigny. Tentacular and sessile arms with cups
and horny rings. Fins rhombic, posterior, caudal. ..."
3. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1881)
"He was at first inclined to refer this Cuttlefish to the genus Ommastrephes, but,
on further consideration, ni;ik.\s it the type of a new genus, ..."
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