Cucumis

Cucumis genus kan tanom sa pamilyang Cucurbitaceae kun sain kasali an pepino (Cucumis sativus), muskmelons (Cucumis melo, asin cantaloupe, asin honeydew), ang horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), pati an West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria).

Igwang 30 espesye sa Aprikaa, asin 25 sa  India, Southeast Asia, asin Australia.

Bibliograpiya
 Ghebretinsae, A. G., Thulin, M. & Barber, J. C. (2007). Relationships of cucumbers and melons unraveled: molecular phylogenetics of Cucumis and related genera (Benincaseae, Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 94(7): 1256–1266.
 
 Sebastian, P. M., H. Schaefer, I. R. H. Telford, and S. S. Renner. 2010. Cucumber and melon have their wild progenitors in India, and the sister species of Cucumis melo is from Australia" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(32)  14269–14273 (online)
 Telford, I. R. H., P. M. Sebastian, J. J. Bruhl, and S. S. Renner. 2011. Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and the sister species to C. melo. Systematic Botany 36(2): 376-389 (online)

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Panluwas na takod
 Multilingual taxonomic information at the University of Melbourne

Cucurbitaceae genera