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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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FLEMINGIA. 1. Zool. Also earlier in form Flemenia, a genus of polypod worms (1827 G. Johnston in Zool. Jnl. III. 324), named after John Fleming (1785–1857), of Bathgate, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Aberdeen and New College, Edinburgh. In form flemingii, as a specif. name of a Stylaxis or palaeozoic coral found in Derbyshire (1849 F. McCoy in Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist. (Feb.) 121), of a sea-squirt or ascidian, Cynthia (1842 H. D. S. Goodsir in Edb. New Philosoph. Jnl. (July) 175), of a Cemoria or spiral limpet shell (1827 Zool. Jnl. III. 77), and of a Productus, or fossil branchiopod of the Carboniferous period (1814 J. Sowerby Miner. Conch. I. 155).

2. Bot. A genus of leguminous shrubs of India of many varieties (1819 W. Roxburgh Plants Coromandel III. 44), after John Fleming (†1815), doctor and botanist in Bengal. The fossil ammonideal mollusc Flemingites of the Permian period is also called after him.