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Definition of Genus spalax
1. Noun. Type genus of the Spalacidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Spalacidae, Spalacidae
Member holonyms: Mole Rat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spalax
Literary usage of Genus spalax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1895)
"... had already been made the type of a genus Spalax, and the other four have been
successively raised to generic rank. ..."
2. The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater, Philip Lutley Sclater (1899)
"... and peculiar group, the members of which imitate the subterranean life of the
Moles. The typical genus Spalax, with eight species, is confined to the ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"... visible ocular fissure, or perhaps a burrowing rodent or rat-mole (genus
spalax, Guld.), in which the very small eyes are hidden under the hairy skin. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"... region are four or five generic types of the burrowing and frequently blind
mole-rats, of which the typical genus Spalax is East European and Egyptian. ..."
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