Definition of Genus Eutamias

1. Noun. Chipmunks of western America and Asia.

Exact synonyms: Eutamias
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Sciuridae, Sciuridae
Member holonyms: Chipmunk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Eutamias

genus Eumeces
genus Eumenes
genus Eumetopias
genus Eumops
genus Eunectes
genus Euonymus
genus Eupatorium
genus Euphagus
genus Euphorbia
genus Euphractus
genus Euplectella
genus Euproctis
genus Eurotium
genus Euryale
genus Eustoma
genus Eutamias (current term)
genus Euterpe
genus Euthynnus
genus Evernia
genus Exacum
genus Exaeretodon
genus Fabiana
genus Fagopyrum
genus Fagus
genus Falcatifolium
genus Falco
genus Fasciola
genus Fasciolopsis
genus Feijoa
genus Felicia

Literary usage of Genus Eutamias

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1899)
"... and the extreme plasticity of the genus Eutamias, it is not surprising that the animal should prove to be distinct from its Siberian congener. ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"... seem hardly distinguishable "from the little striped ground squirrels of northern Asia and North America constituting the genus Eutamias. ..."

3. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"''Head and body, 275. f Collection of Louis di Z. Mearns. Genus EUTAMIAS Trouessart (188O). ... genus Eutamias."

4. The Mammals of Colorado: An Account of the Several Species Found Within the by Edward Royal Warren (1910)
"... farther up among the pines than the latter does. It did not seem to be particularly common anywhere. Genus EUTAMIAS (Grk. eu, well or good + tamias, ..."

5. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"For indeed the dwarf mountain forms of chipmunks tnis charming beastie, the various species of the Western and Asiatic genus — Eutamias — are livelier and ..."

6. California Mammals by Frank Stephens (1906)
"genus Eutamias TROUESSART. (Good or typical; a steward.) Skull light and thin, moderately arched in upper outline; postorbital processes small and slender; ..."

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