Fundulus

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Latin fundulus (“a kind of sausage”), from fundus (“bottom”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”). === Proper noun === Fundulus m A taxonomic genus within the family Fundulidae – certain killifishes, topminnows. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass; Acanthopterygii – superorder; Percomorpha – series; Ovalentaria, Atherinomorpha – clades; Cyprinodontiformes – order; Cyprinodontoidei – suborder; Fundulidae – family ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Fundulus heteroclitus (mummichog) - type species; for other species see Fundulus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies === Further reading === Fundulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Fundulus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Fundulus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Fundulus at World Register of Marine Species Fundulus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Fundulus at National Center for Biotechnology Information List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Latin == === Etymology === From fundulus (“a kind of sausage”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfʊn.dʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfun.du.lus] === Proper noun === Fundulus m sg (genitive Fundulī); second declension A Roman cognomen — famously held by: Gaius Fundanius Fundulus, a Roman consul ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Fundulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray