Definition of Genus squilla

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Squillidae.

Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Squillidae, Squillidae
Member holonyms: Mantis Prawn, Squilla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Squilla

genus Spiraea
genus Spiranthes
genus Spirillum
genus Spirochaeta
genus Spirodela
genus Spirogyra
genus Spirula
genus Spizella
genus Spodoptera
genus Spondias
genus Sporobolus
genus Spraguea
genus Spyeria
genus Squalus
genus Squatina
genus Squilla
genus Stachys
genus Stanhopea
genus Stanleya
genus Stapelia
genus Staphylea
genus Staphylococcus
genus Staurikosaurus
genus Steatornis
genus Steganopus
genus Stegosaurus
genus Stelis
genus Stellaria
genus Stenocarpus
genus Stenochlaena

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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