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Definition of Ptychozoon
1. Noun. Flying geckos.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Gekkonidae, Gekkonidae
Member holonyms: Flying Gecko, Fringed Gecko, Ptychozoon Homalocephalum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptychozoon
Literary usage of Ptychozoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"ptychozoon horsfieldii (Gray) Regarding this lizard Dr. Stejneger writes (Bull.
US Nat. Mus. No. 58, p. 172), "This remarkable species is an inhabitant of ..."
2. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"Genus ptychozoon« Kühl. 2. ... mental small triangular, followed by a pair of "From
HTV$, a fold; Conor, an animal. & ptychozoon kuhli is ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"The remarkable gecko hitherto known as ptychozoon ... As a suitable new name I
propose ptychozoon ... It, may be remarked that Gray's ptychozoon ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"ptychozoon.— The digits have the same structure as described in the genus ...
The extraordinary feature of ptychozoon is the membranous expansions on the ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... claws to each foot, sides of the head, body, tail, and of the limbs with broad,
wing-like expansions of the skin. Only one species is known. ptychozoon ..."
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