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Definition of Mellivora
1. Noun. Ratels.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Honey Badger, Mellivora Capensis, Ratel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellivora
Literary usage of Mellivora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. East African Mammals in the United States National Museum by Ned Hollister (1918)
"Mellivora capensis TRUE, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 455. (Not of Schreber.)
1910. Mellivora ratel ROOSEVELT, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. ..."
2. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"The single Oriental species of ratel (Mellivora) is restricted to India, ...
INDIAN RATEL (Mellivora ratel), migrated into Africa while there was a free ..."
3. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"Mellivora, Storr. Syn. ... Mellivora indica* Ursus apud SHAW.—HARDWICKE, Linn.
Tran. IX. 115, with figure. ..."
4. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"GENUS Mellivora. Tubercular grinder transverse; flesh-tooth larger, with a small
internal lobe, ... Mellivora INDICA. The Indian Raie l or Honey-Badger ..."
5. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by East India Company Museum, Thomas Horsfield (1851)
"The genus Mellivora forms a natural transition to the second family of this
order : the , Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. Syst. List. XXI. a. URSINA. ..."
6. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Mellivora ratel, Gray, List Mamm. BM p. 68; PZS 1865, Mellivora capensis, ...
Mellivora leuconota. Smaller: black; back white, purer towards the crown. ..."
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