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Definition of Sauromalus
1. Noun. Chuckwallas.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sauromalus
Literary usage of Sauromalus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... Sauromalus: Of the two species, one is little known; the other is a desert
reptile and fairly common in the southwestern portion of the United States. ..."
2. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"It probably lives in the Sacramento Valley also, but has not been definitely
recorded from that region. Genus 10. Sauromalus. Sauromalus, DUMERIL, Arch. ..."
3. The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An Account of the Species by John Van Denburgh (1897)
"It probably lives in the Sacramento Valley also, but has not been definitely
recorded from that region. Genus io. Sauromalus. ..."
4. The Pocket Gopher of the Boreal Zone on San Jacinto Peak by Joseph Grinnell, Harry Schelwald Swarth (1918)
"Sauromalus hispidus Stejneger. Sauromalus ater, STREETS, Bull. US Nat. Mus., No.
... Sauromalus hispidus STEJNEGER, Proc. US Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, p. 409. ..."
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