Definition of Genus Plethodon

1. Noun. Type genus of the Plethodontidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Plethodon

genus Platycerium
genus Platylobium
genus Platymiscium
genus Platypoecilus
genus Platystemon
genus Plautus
genus Plecotus
genus Plectania
genus Plectorrhiza
genus Plectranthus
genus Plectrophenax
genus Pleione
genus Pleiospilos
genus Plesianthropus
genus Plesiosaurus
genus Plethodon (current term)
genus Pleurobrachia
genus Pleuronectes
genus Pleurosorus
genus Pleurothallis
genus Pleurotus
genus Plicatoperipatus
genus Ploceus
genus Plumbago
genus Plumeria
genus Pluteus
genus Pluvialis
genus Pluvianus
genus Poa
genus Podalyria

Literary usage of Genus Plethodon

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

1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1906)
"4 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF THE genus Plethodon (PLETHODON VANDYKEI) FROM MOUNT RAINIER, WASHINGTON BY JOHN VAN DENBURGH Curator of the Department of ..."

2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1867)
"From its great resemblance to the last-named species, Dr. Gray included the new one in the genus Plethodon. Having recently had occasion to examine the ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"A possible suggestion of the coloration in the genus Plethodon is that the dark color is uniformly over the animal and the color pigment is localized or in ..."

4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1906)
"4 AND 5 Description of a New Species of the genus Plethodon (Plethodon vandykei) from Mount Rainier, Washington On the Occurrence of the Spotted Night Snake ..."

5. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... limited to Canada proper; while further north there are only Amphibia, represented by frogs and toads, and a salamander of the genus Plethodon. Fishes. ..."

6. The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana by Oliver Perry Hay (1892)
"Genus PLETHODON, Tschudi. Plethodon, Tschudi, 1838, 99, 59; Boulenger, 1882, 28, 53; Cope, 1889, 51, 132. Vomero-palatine teeth in two more or less oblique ..."

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