Definition of Cryptobranchidae

1. Noun. Large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptobranchidae

Cruveilhier's fossa
Cruveilhier's joint
Cruveilhier's ligaments
Cruveilhier's plexus
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten murmur
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome
Crux
Crux Australis
Cruyff turn
Cruz trypanosomiasis
Cryogenian
Cryptacanthodes
Cryptacanthodes maculatus
Cryptobranchidae
Cryptobranchus
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
Cryptocercidae
Cryptocercus
Cryptococcus
Cryptocystis trichodectis
Cryptogamia
Cryptogramma
Cryptogramma acrostichoides
Cryptogramma crispa
Cryptogrammataceae
Cryptomeria
Cryptomeria japonica
Cryptophyceae

Literary usage of Cryptobranchidae

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

1. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles by Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas Barbour (1917)
"cryptobranchidae (FAMILY) Cryptobranchus (GENUS) LEUCKART, Isis, 1821, Lit. Anz., p. 259 TYPE: gigantea — alleganiensis Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ..."

2. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"The cryptobranchidae 8 include the so-called "hellbender" of the Ohio valley and south.4 It is a very voracious scavenger of the water, and bites the hook ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"... but it has not yet been prepared perfectly free from its lower homologues. It forms a double salt with platinum. cryptobranchidae ..."

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