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Definition of Genus Anomia
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Anomiidae: saddle oysters.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Anomiidae, Family Anomiidae
Member holonyms: Anomia Ephippium, Saddle Oyster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Anomia
Literary usage of Genus Anomia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1811)
"I am therefore unable to point out any fossil shell which .shows any proof of
having possessed the characteristic valve or operculum of this genus. Anomia ..."
2. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Elliott Coues (1884)
"Л cry young ' The genus Anomia, though possessing but little economic ...
Besides the perforation of one valve for the byssus, the genus Anomia is ..."
3. Catalogue of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1850)
"... exactly similar to those found in the genus Anomia; and on the inner surface
of the right valve, just in front of the base of the process which supports ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1849)
"... and an oblong cavity in the left, exactly similar to those found in the genus
Anomia ; and on the inner surface of the right valve, just in front of the ..."
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