Definition of Genus alectura

1. Noun. Brush turkeys.

Exact synonyms: Alectura
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae
Member holonyms: Alectura Lathami, Brush Turkey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alectura

genus Albatrellus
genus Albizia
genus Albizzia
genus Albuca
genus Albugo
genus Albula
genus Alca
genus Alcea
genus Alcedo
genus Alcelaphus
genus Alces
genus Aldrovanda
genus Alectis
genus Alectoria
genus Alectoris
genus Alectura
genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia

Literary usage of Genus alectura

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

1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"New Holland Vulture, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ip 32. genus alectura, Lath. Ibid., vol. xp 455. Alectura lathami, Gray, Zool. Misc., No. I. p. 3. ..."

2. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"The genus Alectura differs from all the others in this family, by the tarsi being reticulated. scribed genera, discovered by JOHN REEVES, Esq., in China. ..."

3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"It is also proper to add, before proceeding farther, as confirmatory of a position advanced in the preceding paragraph but one, that the genus Alectura, ..."

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