Squilla

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Squilla f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Squillidae – certain mantis shrimps.

• (genus):

• (genus): Squilla mantis - type species

• Squilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Squilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Squilla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

From squilla (“little bell; shrimp”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʷil.la/, [ˈs̠kʷɪlːʲä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskwil.la/, [ˈskwilːä]

Squilla m sg (genitive Squillae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus, a Roman senator

First-declension noun, singular only.

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