Definition of Genus Spilogale

1. Noun. A genus of Mustelidae.

Exact synonyms: Spilogale
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Little Spotted Skunk, Spilogale Putorius, Spotted Skunk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spilogale

genus Spergularia
genus Sphacele
genus Sphacelotheca
genus Sphaeralcea
genus Sphaerocarpos
genus Sphaerocarpus
genus Sphagnum
genus Sphecius
genus Sphecotheres
genus Spheniscus
genus Sphenodon
genus Sphyraena
genus Sphyrapicus
genus Sphyrna
genus Spilogale (current term)
genus Spinacia
genus Spinus
genus Spiraea
genus Spiranthes
genus Spirillum
genus Spirochaeta
genus Spirodela
genus Spirogyra
genus Spirula
genus Spizella
genus Spodoptera
genus Spondias
genus Sporobolus
genus Spraguea

Literary usage of Genus Spilogale

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In the Southern and Western United States and throughout Mexico occur also small 'striped' skunks of another genus (Spilogale) marked with four narrow ..."

2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"In the Southern and Western I'nited States and throughout Mexico occur also small 'striped' skunks of another genus (Spilogale) marked with four narrow ..."

3. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"... Genus Tayra Oken Genus Grison Oken genus Spilogale Gray Genus Mephitis Geoffroy and Cuvier Subgenus Mephitis Geoffroy and Cuvier Subgenus ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"XIV. Reptiles, Proc. Wash. Acmi. Sci. Vol. v, pp. 39-98.— HOWELL, AH Three New Skunks of the genus Spilogale. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. xv, pp. 241-242. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The skunks of the genus Spilogale are smaller and differ in the depressed skull, un- arched above. The white stripes are more numerous and often incomplete. ..."

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