Definition of Genus Neotoma

1. Noun. Packrats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Neotoma

genus Nasua
genus Natrix
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 (current term)
genus Nepa
genus Nepenthes
genus Nepeta
genus Nephelium
genus Nephrolepis
genus Nephrops
genus Nephthytis
genus Nerita
genus Neritina
genus Nerium
genus Nerodia
genus Nesokia
genus Nestor
genus Neurospora

Literary usage of Genus Neotoma

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

1. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"Genus NEOTOMA Say and Ord.1 1825. Neotoma SAY and ORD, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad phia, vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 345. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"WOOD-RAT, a large rat-like wild mouse of the genus Neotoma, of which two species dwell in the forests of the southern half of the United States. ..."

3. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"Finally, observing that the molar teeth of tire animal were furnished with " roots," they have constructed the new genus " Neotoma. ..."

4. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Diagnoses of Some Undescribed Wood Rats (genus Neotoma) in the National Museum, p. 2, June 27, 1894. (Reprinted in Proc. US Nat. Mus., XVII, No. ..."

5. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"... alternating with reentrant angles or interspaces. ( Merriam.) Genus NEOTOMA Say and Ord (1823). Neotoma SAY and OBD, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. ..."

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