Genus Pholas (Noun)
Meaning
Type genus of the family Pholadidae: piddocks.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Marine biologists have discovered numerous species belonging to the genus Pholas along European coasts, proving this part of their findings effective and their testing resource useful beyond specific ecosystems conditions documented many summers that have gone past.
- Their current findings indicated the entire remaining genus Pholas species had lived among the sand submerged in cooler deeper tides around the continents.
- As of this morning our surveys had not definitively placed the new potential genus Pholas form and could be viewed in museum records that display mollusks.
- The divers located hundreds of empty genus Pholas mollusks remains following several current and weather changes underwater.
- These new genus Pholas mollusk specimens were preserved and moved to local university labs for further review analysis and study.