NOUN
- (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described
How To Use type genus In A Sentence
- This is problematical however as the type genus for this group, Palaeochoerus from Oligocene-Miocene Africa and Europe, almost certainly is a suid proper and not a peccary, Old World or otherwise. Archive 2006-08-01
- The terms Sesiinae and Sesiicae were rejected because the type genus of these taxa is not a sphingid.