Fundulus

See also: fundulus

Translingual

Fundulus heteroclitus

Etymology

From Latin fundulus (“a kind of sausage”), from fundus (“bottom”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”).

Proper noun

Fundulus m

1. 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; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; 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
• 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
• Fundulus at Encyclopedia of Life
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From fundulus (“a kind of sausage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.du.lus/, [ˈfʊn̪d̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.du.lus/, [ˈfun̪d̪ulus]

Proper noun

Fundulus m sg (genitive Fundulī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Fundanius Fundulus, a Roman consul

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Fundulus
Genitive	Fundulī
Dative	Fundulō
Accusative	Fundulum
Ablative	Fundulō
Vocative	Fundule

References

• “Fundulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray