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Definition of Arctictis
1. Noun. Binturongs.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Viverridae, Family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Viverrinae
Member holonyms: Arctictis Bintourong, Bearcat, Binturong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctictis
Literary usage of Arctictis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"GENUS Arctictis. This is a very curious animal, which, like the panda and the
linsang, ... Arctictis BINTURONG. The Binturong (Jerdon's No. 126). HABITAT. ..."
2. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Arctictis binturong. Viverra binturong, Raffles Linn. Trans., xiii, p. 253 (1822).
... 49; Jerdon Mamm., p. 130; Me Blanford Mammals, p. 1 18- Arctictis ..."
3. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Arctictis, Temm. Monogr. xx. p. 21,1820 ?; Gray, PZS 1864, p. .520. ...
Arctictis binturong. (Binturong.) BM Black. Younger with more or less long white ..."
4. Evolution of Mammalian Molar Teeth: To and from the Triangular Type by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1907)
"138, 139); (c) fruit-eating habits (Arctictis is said to be frugivorous) frequently
lead to the degeneration or aberrancy of the molar crowns ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"In Arctictis tins flattening is at its maximum, the lesser trochanter is very
small, the trochanteric fossa is shallow, and the great trochanter is ..."
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