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Definition of Genus tolypeutes

1. Noun. A genus of Dasypodidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tolypeutes

Literary usage of Genus tolypeutes

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

1. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1871)
"... limbs are usually plantigrade, or nearly so; but, in the singular genus Tolypeutes, the fore foot is supported upon the extremities of the long nails. ..."

2. An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia by William Henry Flower (1885)
"In the genus Tolypeutes the manus is formed on a somewhat similar type, except that the first digit is suppressed ; but in the Nine banded Armadillos (genus ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The genus Tolypeutes, of which the best-known species is T. tricinctus, the Apar (there are two other species in the genus), can roll itself up into a ball ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"In the genus Tolypeutes these bands are movable, so that the animal is enabled to roll itself up ..."

5. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"One genus (Tolypeutes) has the power of rolling itself into a ball, the head-shield exactly closing the anterior notch of the carapace and the tail-sheath ..."

6. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"Genus TOLYPEUTES, Illiger '. . Carapace with large scapular and pelvic bucklers, and only three movable bands, the sculpture consisting of ..."

7. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introd. on the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"In the genus Tolypeutes (fig. 460), the animal walks upon the tips of the toes, and has the power of rolling itself into a ball. ..."

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