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Definition of Macroclemys
1. Noun. Includes the alligator snapping turtle.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Chelydridae, Family Chelydridae
Member holonyms: Alligator Snapper, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macroclemys Temmincki
Lexicographical Neighbors of Macroclemys
Literary usage of Macroclemys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... closely the carapace of Macroclemys. These turtles alone among all living
forms, so far as I know, possess a row of three or four epidermal scutes lying ..."
2. The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana by Oliver Perry Hay (1892)
"Jaws very strong and hooked. Tail with three series of tubercles above; the lower
surface with small scales. Macroclemys temminckii, (Troost). ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"60 A Record of the Alligator Snapping Turtle, Macroclemys temmincki (Testudines:
Chelydridae), in Kansas ROBERT F. CLARKE Division of Biological Sciences, ..."
4. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The eggs are numerous and spherical. Three genera are known, each with a single
species, and two of these are American. The Genus Macroclemys ..."
5. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The eggs are numerous and spherical. Three genera are known, each with a single
species, and two of these are American. The Genus Macroclemys ..."
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