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Definition of Genus Chelifer
1. Noun. A genus of Chelonethida.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Chelonethida, Order Chelonethida, Order Pseudoscorpiones, Order Pseudoscorpionida, Pseudoscorpiones, Pseudoscorpionida
Member holonyms: Book Scorpion, Chelifer Cancroides
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chelifer
Literary usage of Genus Chelifer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"The younger Hermann, in his excellent work on the apterous insects of Linnaeus,
has adopted the genus chelifer of Geoffrey, and has made known several ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"Judging from his observation of its having claws resembling those of a lobster,
it must have been a species of the genus Chelifer Geoff, and Leach, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"... genus Chelifer, ahn, of which I possess Ch. oblongus Say, the thorax is divided
by two transverse slightly indented lines into 3 portions, the anterior ..."
4. Excelsior by James Hamilton (1855)
"These constitute the genus Chelifer, and form the connecting link between the
Scorpions and the Harvest-men or Shepherd-spiders ..."
5. Life in its lower, intermediate, and higher forms; or, Manifestations of the by Philip Henry Gosse (1857)
"These constitute the genus Chelifer, and form the connecting link between the
Scorpions and the Harvest-men or Shepherd- spiders (Phalangium), ..."
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