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Definition of Genus certhia
1. Noun. Type genus of the Certhiidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Certhiidae, Family Certhiidae
Member holonyms: American Creeper, Brown Creeper, Certhia Americana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Certhia
Literary usage of Genus certhia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Genus CERTHIA, Linn., 1766. The genus Certhia contains six Indian species, which
are chiefly residents on the Himalayas, or migratory to a slight extent ..."
2. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"The genus Certhia, as now formed by ILLIGER, contains only such species as exhibit
the essential generic characters above given : the other numerous species ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE MEXICAN FORMS OF THE genus certhia. BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER.
THAT there exist in Mexico two well defined races of the genus Certhia ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"... containing 5 genera, and to the genus certhia (Linn. ... are the same as those
of the genus certhia. The black and white creeper is the mniotilta taria ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"E. genus certhia. Certhia LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, 118. 5 species, of
which '2 are unidentifiable. ..."