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Definition of Genus Crotaphytus
1. Noun. Collared lizards.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Member holonyms: Collared Lizard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Crotaphytus
Literary usage of Genus Crotaphytus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1851)
"Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GIN. CHAR.—Head covered with small and polygonal plates
... Of the genus Crotaphytus, a typical form peculiar to North America, ..."
2. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frédéric Girard, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, John Torrey, James Hall (1853)
"genus Crotaphytus, Holbrook. Gin. CHAR.—Head covered with smail and polygonal
plates. The occipital proper, minute. Teeth on the jaws, pterygoids and ..."
3. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club by New England zoological club, Cambridge (1900)
"Mann notes that in its habits and actions this species is very similar to the
species of our American genus Crotaphytus. Agama stellio (Linne'). ..."
4. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Lorenzo Sitgreaves (1853)
"Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GEN. CHAR.—Head short, sub-triangular, rounded in
front, and covered with small plates; no palatine teeth; tongue obtuse in ..."
5. An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a by Howard Stansbury (1855)
"A series of individuals of different sizes were collected by Capt. Stansbury in
the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GKS. CHAR. ..."
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