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Definition of Genus squilla
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Squillidae.
Group relationships: Family Squillidae, Squillidae
Member holonyms: Mantis Prawn, Squilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Squilla
Literary usage of Genus squilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies from the Biological Laboratory by Johns Hopkins university (1879)
"My observations, however, tend to substantiate the second part of Claus' conclusion;
that the Alima form is the young of the genus Squilla, and that it is ..."
2. Chesapeake Zoölogical Laboratory by Johns Hopkins University, William Keith Brooks (1879)
"My observations, however, tend to substantiate the second part of Claus' conclusion;
that the Alima form is the young of the' genus Squilla, and that it is ..."
3. A Hand-book, Or, Concise Dictionary of Terms Used in the Arts and Sciences by Walter Hamilton (1825)
"... but by other writers classed under the genus squilla. The white shrimp, or
cancer squilla, is the prawn. ..."
4. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Squilla itself does not appear to be represented in rocks than the
Eocene Tertiary. ORDER DECAPODA. Crustaceans with five pairs of ambulatory legs ..."
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