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Definition of Ictonyx
1. Noun. A genus of Mustelidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Ictonyx Striata, Striped Muishond, Ictonyx Frenata, Zoril
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ictonyx
Literary usage of Ictonyx
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. East African Mammals in the United States National Museum by Ned Hollister (1918)
"All the recognizable forms will doubtless prove to be merely geographic races of
the Cape species, Mellivora capensis.1 Genus ictonyx Kaup. 1835. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1915)
"... and he proposed that the African animal be called ictonyx ... but there is no
question as to its identification with the Cape form of ictonyx. * Proc. ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"In the Libyan polecat (ictonyx Libyca) I found no trace of the muscle ; and
afterwards ... in the badger and common polecat, close'y allied to ictonyx, ..."
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