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Definition of Alligator snapper
1. Noun. Large species having three ridges on its back; found in southeastern United States.
Generic synonyms: Snapping Turtle
Group relationships: Genus Macroclemys, Macroclemys
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alligator Snapper
Literary usage of Alligator snapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"One of these is an alligator snapper, the scanty remains of which were found in
what are ... This turtle was about the size of the alligator snapper, ..."
2. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"Chelydridae (Snapping Turtles)—The common snapper (Chelydra serpentina) and the
alligator snapper ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... are strikingly displayed in large specimens of the alligator snapper (Macroclemys).
In the latter species the tubercles are very large and projecting. ..."
4. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"alligator snapper. Blackish ; head with many fleshy slips. Gulf States, N. to Wis.
L. 40 or more ; " perhaps the most ferocious, and, for its size, ..."
5. Woodland paths by Winthrop Packard (1910)
"... the snapping turtle, or the alligator snapper, as he is sometimes called, and
with reason, for, except for his casing of shell, he is very like ..."
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