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So far, scientists have identified two species belonging to the new genus: Luffy schillhammeri and Luffy nika.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Complete taxonomic descriptions of the genus and its species were published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

PhD student Fang-Shuo Hu and Alexey Solodovnikov of the Natural History Museum of Denmark conducted a broad review of every known genus in the Ocypus group.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Leafcutter ants cultivate fungus for food, while ants of the Lasius genus tend aphids for their sweet secretions “like domestic cattle.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Since the behavioral data did not always align perfectly with the species in that phylogeny, the researchers simplified the evolutionary tree to 44 genera, along with five families and one superfamily.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

Biologists are working on sequencing the genomes of additional bird species in the hopes of expanding the family tree to include thousands of bird genera.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

There are more than 100 species of Nepenthes, which is one of the many genuses of carnivorous plants found around the world.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010

The children like to hear themselves called genuses, and they go into it like smoke.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie