Definition of Callorhinus

1. Noun. Fur seals.

Exact synonyms: Genus Callorhinus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Otariidae, Otariidae
Member holonyms: Fur Seal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Callorhinus

Callistoan
Callistonian
Callithricidae
Callitrichaceae
Callitriche
Callitris
Callitris calcarata
Callitris cupressiformis
Callitris endlicheri
Callitris glauca
Callitris glaucophylla
Callitris parlatorei
Callitris quadrivalvis
Callitroga
Callophis
Callorhinus
Callorhinus ursinus
Callum
Calluna
Calluna vulgaris
Calmette-Guerin bacillus
Calmette-Guerin vaccine
Calmette test
Calmuck
Calmucks
Calnada pea
Calocarpum
Calocarpum zapota
Calocedrus
Calocedrus decurrens

Literary usage of Callorhinus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"The Species of callorhinus, or Northern Fur Seal," by Dr. Jordan and Mr. ... The generic name callorhinus is retained as sufficiently distinct from the ..."

2. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"(Substitute for callorhinus, assumed to be a homonym of ... *callorhinus alascanus Jordan and Clark. 1885. callorhinus ursinus TRUE, Proc. US Nat. ..."

3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"I will go even further than you, for I think it urgent not only to rigidly prohibit the taking of the migratory callorhinus in ..."

4. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1905)
"The species established on the Commander Islands is callorhinus ursinus, while that breeding on the Pribilofs is callorhinus alascanus. ..."

5. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1871)
"Northern Sea-Bear. BM Phoca ursina, Linn.; Pander fy D'Alton, t. 7. f. 1 (not good). Otaria (callorhinus) ursina, Peters, ..."

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