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Definition of Genus Chrysemys
1. Noun. Painted turtles.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Emydidae, Family Emydidae
Member holonyms: Chrysemys Picta, Painted Terrapin, Painted Tortoise, Painted Turtle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chrysemys
Literary usage of Genus Chrysemys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1870)
"The genus Chrysemys contains the Painted Turtle, C. picta, Gray, from New Brunswick
to Florida, and westward, which has the shell about six and a half ..."
2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"... species appeared in the London Clay of England, and these have been referred
to the existing genus Chrysemys. ..."
3. First Report on the Economic Features of Turtles of Pennsylvania by Harvey Adam Surface (1908)
"genus Chrysemys. The Painted Turtles. (G) Plates of carapace in straight rows
across back. Sp. 12. Chrysemys picta. Painted Turtle. ..."
4. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"With the existing American genus Chrysemys we come to forms in which the axillary
and inguinal buttresses are much less developed than in the ..."
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