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Definition of Trichys
1. Noun. A genus of Hystricidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Hystricidae, Hystricidae
Member holonyms: Long-tailed Porcupine, Trichys Lipura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trichys
Literary usage of Trichys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1889)
"... A. Everett near the Batang Kubar River in ik, possesses a long and slender tail.
However, the discovery that trichys ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"A third genus of Old-World Porcupine is the singular trichys? Of this there is
but one species, ... trichys has sixteen dorsal and six lumbar vertebrae. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1907)
"By reference to Shaw's descriptions, which are accompanied by good figures showing
the peculiar tail bristles of the genera Atherurus and trichys, ..."
4. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"trichys macrotis Miller. Proc. US Nat. MUM., XXVI, Xo. 1317, p., February 3, 1903.
114488. Skin and skull. Adult female. Tapanuli Bay, northwestern Sumatra. ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1876)
"... but I should have expected it to be more similar to that of A. macrura than
it would appear from Blainville's figure. trichys, gn Allied to ..."
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