Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Sistrurus

1. Noun. Pygmy rattlesnakes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sistrurus

Literary usage of Genus Sistrurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"genus Sistrurus. Top of head with granular scales—with some species a few small shields on snout, in front of eyes. Eleven species and two varieties in the ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The small, active prairie rattlesnakes, now greatly reduced in number, differ sufficiently from the genus Crotalus to be set apart into the genus Sistrurus. ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"genus Sistrurus, Garman (Plate VII), misnamed the ground rattlesnake, may be distinguished from Crotalus by its smaller size, diminutive rattle, ..."

4. Transaction by Texas Medical Association (1902)
"Tail provided with a rattle; (a) Top of head covered by regular shield, genus, Sistrurus, Garman. ..."

5. The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana by Oliver Perry Hay (1892)
"This is another of the species reported to Dr. Goode (34, '73, 184) as furnishing to its young in times of danger a retreat down its throat. Genus SISTRURUS ..."

6. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"... but in one species, constituting the genus Sistrurus, there are nine large shields on the top of the head. Specimens of the ordinary North American ..."

7. Proceedings by Nebraska, Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"Common rattlesnake 354 genus Sistrurus 355 18. Massasauga 355 Population of Nebraska— Cities 78 Counties— ..."

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