Definition of Genus spalax

1. Noun. Type genus of the Spalacidae.

Exact synonyms: Spalax
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Spalacidae, Spalacidae
Member holonyms: Mole Rat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spalax

genus Solanopteris
genus Solanum
genus Solea
genus Soleirolia
genus Solenopsis
genus Solenostemon
genus Solidago
genus Somateria
genus Sonchus
genus Sonora
genus Sophora
genus Sorbus
genus Sorex
genus Sorghum
genus Spadella
genus Spalax
genus Sparaxis
genus Sparganium
genus Sparmannia
genus Spartina
genus Spartium
genus Spathiphyllum
genus Spergula
genus Spergularia
genus Sphacele
genus Sphacelotheca
genus Sphaeralcea
genus Sphaerocarpos
genus Sphaerocarpus

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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