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Definition of Genus hyperoodon
1. Noun. Bottle-nosed whales.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Hyperodontidae, Family Ziphiidae, Hyperodontidae, Ziphiidae
Member holonyms: Bottle-nosed Whale, Bottlenose, Bottlenose Whale, Hyperoodon Ampullatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hyperoodon
Literary usage of Genus hyperoodon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"On the Whales of the genus hyperoodon. By WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER, LL.D., FRS, PZS, &c.
[Received November 28, 1882.] Apart from that indicated by the ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... of the parent before it is born, and that the young appear to attain their
full size very rapidly, is probably equally true in the genus Hyperoodon. ..."
3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"... (Sowerby) has been referred to this genus [Hyperoodon~\ ; but the form of the
head and the position of the fins, the teeth and the form of the skull, ..."
4. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"In existing genera all the mandibular teeth are rudimentary, with the exception
of one or occasionally two pairs. Genus HYPEROODON ..."
5. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"This is the first and only record of the genus in the northwestern Atlantic.—See
True, Science, Vol. II, 1883, p. 54o. genus hyperoodon Lacepede, Histoire ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"... genus Hyperoodon. From the foregoing I conclude the proper name of this whale
to be Hyperoodon ..."
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