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Definition of Genus Sigmodon
1. Noun. American cotton rats.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cricetidae, Family Cricetidae
Member holonyms: Cotton Rat, Sigmodon Hispidus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sigmodon
Literary usage of Genus Sigmodon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Viviparious Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon, John Bachman (1846)
"genus Sigmodon.—SAY and ORD. DENTAL FORMULA. Incisive -^ ; Canine ^—^ ; Molar =^ =16.
As the present genus was instituted after a careful examination of the ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"Description of a New Subspecies of the genus Sigmodon from Southern Florida.
By Frank M. Chapman. ..."
3. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Genus SIGMODON. Sigmodon alleni Bailey. Biological Survey collection. Proc. Biol.
S..C. Wash., XV, pp. 112-113, June I', 1902. 88227. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"Among mammals, but few species and one genus (Sigmodon) are confined to it.
Lepus aquaticus and L.palustris, the cotton rat, etc., and a few others, ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The genus Sigmodon, the Cotton Rats, reaches Central America, and even gets a
little farther south. The other two genera, though mainly North American, ..."
6. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"... may have attained its present distinctive features within the Sonoran area.
The genus Sigmodon, which differs from the last in the pattern of the molar ..."
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