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Definition of Sirenidae
1. Noun. Sirens.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Family
Group relationships: Caudata, Order Caudata, Order Urodella, Urodella
Member holonyms: Genus Siren
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirenidae
Literary usage of Sirenidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"Sirenidae.—-The three pairs of fringed external gills persist throughout life.
The body is eel-like. ... The Sirenidae are the most degraded members of the ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1850)
"If it can be shewn that the Sirenidae are an aquatic type of a larger group
embracing Pachyderms, the direct relation of their structure and mode of life ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1853)
"The affinities of the so-called herbivorous cetaceans. or Sirenidae, ...
Sirenidae are the lowest grade among pachyderms ; even if considered as parallel to ..."
4. Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge; Proposing a by Roswell Park (1841)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like
form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1850)
"If it can be shewn that the Sirenidae are an aquatic type of a larger group
embracing Pachyderms, the direct relation of their structure and mode of life ..."
6. Pantology, Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge: Proposing a by Roswell Park (1847)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like
form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."
7. Pantology: Or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge ; Proposing a by Roswell Park (1847)
"These last named animals, except the sirenidae, change their primary fish-like
form, at a certain age ; acquiring limbs, losing their gills, and afterwards ..."
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