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Definition of Rynchops
1. Noun. Type genus of the Rynchopidae: skimmers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Rynchopidae, Rynchopidae
Member holonyms: Skimmer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rynchops
Literary usage of Rynchops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Genus Rynchops Linnaeus. ... Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 138; ed. 12, i, 1766, 228.
(Tvp* by monotypy, Rynchops nigra ... (Substitute name for Rynchops ..."
2. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"XL, which Doctor Boulenger identifies as //. rynchops. ... Hydrus rynchops
SCHNEIDER, Hist. Amphib., I, p. 246 (based on Russell, Ind. Serp., I, pi. xvii; ..."
3. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"XL, which Doctor Boulenger identifies as //. rynchops ... Hydrus rynchops SCHNEIDER,
Hist. Amphib., I, p. 246 (based on Russell, Ind. Serp., I, pi. xvn; ..."
4. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1919)
"Rynchops nigra cinerascens HELLMAYR, Abh. KB Akad. Wiss., ii Kl., xxii. ...
[Rynchops] melanurus SWAINSON, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 373 (founded on Anim. ..."
5. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1891)
"Rynchops.—Superior osseous mandible, much compressed in a lateral ...
Rynchops.—Supraorbital glandular depressions far separated in the frontal region. ..."
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