Definition of Genus Natrix

1. Noun. Water snakes; a cosmopolitan genus.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Natrix

genus Myxinikela
genus Myxocephalus
genus Nabalus
genus Naemorhedus
genus Nageia
genus Naias
genus Naja
genus Najas
genus Nanomia
genus Napaea
genus Narcissus
genus Narthecium
genus Nasalis
genus Nasturtium
genus Nasua
genus Natrix (current term)
genus Nauclea
genus Naucrates
genus Nautilus
genus Necturus
genus Negaprion
genus Nelumbo
genus Nemophila
genus Neoceratodus
genus Neofiber
genus Neohygrophorus
genus Neolentinus
genus Neomys
genus Neophron
genus Neotoma

Literary usage of Genus Natrix

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"THE water snakes of the genus Natrix offer some puzzling problems, not only to the systematist, but also to the student of geographical distribution. ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The common water-snake, genus Natrix, is only semi-aquatic, spending most of the time on land in the vicinity of ponds or streams. ..."

3. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to by John Van Denburgh (1922)
"... plate normally is undivided, but in rare individuals is divided as in the genus Natrix. There are no scale pits. ..."

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