Definition of Genus Rissa

1. Noun. A genus of Laridae.

Exact synonyms: Rissa
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Laridae, Laridae
Member holonyms: Kittiwake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rissa

genus Rhodanthe
genus Rhododendron
genus Rhodosphaera
genus Rhodymenia
genus Rhus
genus Rhyacotriton
genus Rhynchoelaps
genus Rhyncostylis
genus Rhynia
genus Ribes
genus Richea
genus Richmondena
genus Ricinus
genus Rickettsia
genus Riparia
genus Rissa (current term)
genus Rivina
genus Rivulus
genus Robinia
genus Roccella
genus Roccus
genus Rodolia
genus Romneya
genus Roridula
genus Rorippa
genus Rosa
genus Rosellinia
genus Rosmarinus
genus Roystonea
genus Rubia

Literary usage of Genus Rissa

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)
"Replaces Gavia Boie, 1822 (twice preoccupied), formerly employed in the Check-List. genus Rissa Rissa STEPHENS, Gen. Zool., XIII, i, 1825, 180. ..."

2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... to British Columbia, Lake Ontario, and Long Island; in Europe south to France. genus Rissa STEPHENS. Rissa STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, 1826, 180. ..."

3. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"Rare winter visitant to New Brunswick and probably northern New England. genus Rissa. STEPH. 23 (40) RISSA TRIDACTYLA. (LINN. ..."

4. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"... a little more flattened than they usually are in the last- mentioned species. Axis, 2-15-2'4 inches; diam., 1-6$-1-j$. THE KITTIWAKE GULLS. genus Rissa. ..."

5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Then as the kittiwake is given as the typical species of Ihe sub-genus Rissa,—and, as it lias been shown, by his own cha- ..."

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