|
|
Definition of Genus Somateria
1. Noun. Eider ducks.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Eider, Eider Duck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Somateria
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. ..."
Other Resources:
