hurria
hurria — noun
1. a biological genus that includes several kinds of water snakes with wide, flat s
a biological genus that includes several kinds of water snakes with wide, flat snouts; these snakes are found in rivers and lakes of East Asia and belong to the family Homalopsidae.
The genus Hurria includes water snakes with broad snouts found in East Asian rivers.
taxonomic frame: genus + Hurria + includes
Dr. Folake identified a new Hurria specimen collected from a wetland in southern China.
scientific context: Hurria specimen
The Hurria snakes have unusually wide snouts that help them hunt in murky water.
Ritu compared Hurria DNA with that of other water snake groups to study their evolution.
文法句型
always treated as singular in formal scientific usage
用法筆記
In scientific writing, Hurria is always capitalised and typically preceded by the word 'genus' or used as part of a formal binomial name.