Generic character: shell bivalve, gaping or divaricated, with several smaller hinges situated upon the hinge; hinge recurved, with an incurved tooth.
The valves of Teredo are noticed as forming part of the Linnæan generic character, you will recollect.
What is a generic character in one may be only a specific character in another.
And, of course, this twofold absurdity is presented in all cases where a generic character is unequally distributed among the constituent species of a genus.
The presence or absence of barbs is a conspicuous difference, and in certain Gramineae serves even as a generic character (9/28.
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