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Definition of Neotoma floridana
1. Noun. Large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States.
Generic synonyms: Wood Rat, Wood-rat
Group relationships: Genus Neotoma, Neotoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neotoma Floridana
Literary usage of Neotoma floridana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"*Neotoma floridana rabida Bangs. 1898. ... division of lo1 austral zone. f*Neotoma
floridana baileyi (Merriam). 1894. Neotoma baileyi MERRIAM, Proc. Biol. ..."
2. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"482). jij. Coloration pallid; skull broad Neotoma venusta (p. 475). Neotoma floridana
... Neotoma floridana ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1895)
"... side of Mj. They are all merely incipient points arising from the cingulum,
but are not without morphologic interest. (See Fig. 12.) Neotoma floridana ..."
4. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"I. Neotoma floridana, the native wood-rat, which Lewis and Clark knew in the
Atlantic States as different from the imported house-rat, and which they found ..."
5. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1907)
"The ears are small, like those of Neotoma floridana. Tail well covered with hair.
Pelage, in winter, long, dense, and soft. Upper surface of body ochraceous ..."
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