Scientific name. The genus is capitalized and the species is lowercase.
genus and species
The genus is the broader classification that a group of species belong to, while the species is the specific name given to a particular organism within that genus. For example, in the scientific name Homo sapiens, "Homo" is the genus and "sapiens" is the species.
Genus. Genus is a group animals having common characteristics. The second name is the species name. For eg: Panthera Tigris is the biological name of tiger. Panthera is the genus and Tigris is the species.
There are many genus and species called water lily but all are usually in the two families Nymphaeaceae and Nelumbonaceae.
Identifying organisms by their genus and species names is called binomial nomenclature. Each species is given a unique two-part scientific name, consisting of the genus name followed by the species name.
The genus and species of the lion is Panthera leo.
Genus-Species
A genus with one species is a monospecific genus.
When genus and species are combined to create a name, that name is called the scientific name. For example, we are H. sapienwhere H for Homo is the genus and sapien is the species.
The species is the combined genus and species
There are 79 species of hagfish that are split up into six different genus. The genus Eptatretus contains 49 species, the genus Myxine contains 23 species, the genus Nemamyxine contains two species, the genus Neomyxine contains one species, the genus Notomyxine contains one species, and the genus Rubicundus contains four species.
Aleurites moluccana is the kukui nut tree, also called candlenut.