Fundulus

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

Fundulus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fundulidae – certain killifishes, topminnows.

• (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

• (genus): Fundulus heteroclitus (mummichog) - type species; for other species see Fundulus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• 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
• List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From fundulus (“a kind of sausage”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.du.lus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.du.lus/,

Fundulus m sg (genitive Fundulī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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