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Definition of Genus Spilogale
1. Noun. A genus of Mustelidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Little Spotted Skunk, Spilogale Putorius, Spotted Skunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spilogale
Literary usage of Genus Spilogale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In the Southern and Western United States and throughout Mexico occur also
small 'striped' skunks of another genus (Spilogale) marked with four narrow ..."
2. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"In the Southern and Western I'nited States and throughout Mexico occur also
small 'striped' skunks of another genus (Spilogale) marked with four narrow ..."
3. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"... Genus Tayra Oken Genus Grison Oken genus Spilogale Gray Genus Mephitis Geoffroy
and Cuvier Subgenus Mephitis Geoffroy and Cuvier Subgenus ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"XIV. Reptiles, Proc. Wash. Acmi. Sci. Vol. v, pp. 39-98.— HOWELL, AH Three New
Skunks of the genus Spilogale. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. Vol. xv, pp. 241-242. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The skunks of the genus Spilogale are smaller and differ in the depressed skull,
un- arched above. The white stripes are more numerous and often incomplete. ..."
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