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Definition of Genus Salamandra
1. Noun. Type genus of the Salamandridae.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Genus
Group relationships: Family Salamandridae, Salamandridae
Member holonyms: European Fire Salamander, Salamandra Salamandra, Fire Salamander, Salamandra Maculosa, Spotted Salamander, Alpine Salamander, Salamandra Atra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Salamandra
Literary usage of Genus Salamandra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"... Observations on the genus Salamandra, and the establishment of the Genera ...
genus Salamandra ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1862)
"Schneider reunited the water and land salamanders into a single genus salamandra,
comprising the genera salamandra, and triton of Laurent! ..."
3. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nikolaus Triibner (1859)
"Observations on the genus Salamandra, with the Anatomy of the Salamander
Gigantea (Barton), or S. Alleghaniensis (Michaux), and two new genera proposed, ..."
4. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nicolas Trübner, Benjamin Moran, Edward Edwards (1859)
"Observations on the genus Salamandra, with the Anatomy of the Salamander Gigantea
... Note to a Paper entitled Observation» on the genus Salamandra, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"Schneider did not consider it a new genus but put it under the European genus
Salamandra without appending any specific name.1 ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... will be seen on referring to the taxonomía synopsis of the class given at the
end of the article AMPHIBIA that the genus Salamandra belongs to the first ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... will be seen on referring to the taxonomía synopsis of the class given at the
end of the article AMPHIBIA that the genus Salamandra belongs to the first ..."
8. The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff (1899)
"The evidence of distribution here points emphatically to an Alpine origin of the
genus Salamandra. We cannot tell where the ancestors of Salamandra may have ..."
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