Definition of Genus Somateria

1. Noun. Eider ducks.

Exact synonyms: Somateria
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Eider, Eider Duck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Somateria

genus Sium
genus Sivapithecus
genus Sloanea
genus Smilax
genus Smiledon
genus Smyrnium
genus Sobralia
genus Solandra
genus Solanopteris
genus Solanum
genus Solea
genus Soleirolia
genus Solenopsis
genus Solenostemon
genus Solidago
genus Somateria (current term)
genus Sonchus
genus Sonora
genus Sophora
genus Sorbus
genus Sorex
genus Sorghum
genus Spadella
genus Spalax
genus Sparaxis
genus Sparganium
genus Sparmannia
genus Spartina
genus Spartium
genus Spathiphyllum

Literary usage of Genus Somateria

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

1. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"Steller's Duck. Arctic species, which occurs in Greenland. genus Somateria. LEACH. 115 (159) SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA BOREALIS. (BREHM.) Northern Eider Duck. ..."

2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... coast of Siberia west to mouth of the Lena River; winters on the Aleutian Islands. genus Somateria LEACH. Somateria LEACH, in Ross, Voyage Discovery ..."

3. A Voyage of Discovery: Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His by John Ross (1819)
"Genus, SOMATERIA, Leach (Eider). Species 1. SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS (King Eider). A pair only of this species was shot, in about lat. 72°. ..."

4. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"genus Somateria LEACH. SUBgenus Somateria. Somateria LEACH, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. Type, Anas mollissima LINN. 159. ..."

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