Definition of Genus Sistrurus

1. Noun. Pygmy rattlesnakes.

Exact synonyms: Sistrurus
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Crotalidae, Family Crotalidae
Member holonyms: Massasauga, Massasauga Rattler, Sistrurus Catenatus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sistrurus

genus Sigmodon
genus Silene
genus Sillago
genus Silphium
genus Silurus
genus Silvia
genus Silybum
genus Simarouba
genus Simulium
genus Sinanthropus
genus Sinapis
genus Sinningia
genus Sinornis
genus Siren
genus Sison
genus Sistrurus (current term)
genus Sisymbrium
genus Sisyrinchium
genus Sitophylus
genus Sitotroga
genus Sitta
genus Sium
genus Sivapithecus
genus Sloanea
genus Smilax
genus Smiledon
genus Smyrnium
genus Sobralia
genus Solandra
genus Solanopteris

Literary usage of Genus Sistrurus

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

1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"genus Sistrurus. Top of head with granular scales—with some species a few small shields on snout, in front of eyes. Eleven species and two varieties in the ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The small, active prairie rattlesnakes, now greatly reduced in number, differ sufficiently from the genus Crotalus to be set apart into the genus Sistrurus. ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"genus Sistrurus, Garman (Plate VII), misnamed the ground rattlesnake, may be distinguished from Crotalus by its smaller size, diminutive rattle, ..."

4. Transaction by Texas Medical Association (1902)
"Tail provided with a rattle; (a) Top of head covered by regular shield, genus, Sistrurus, Garman. ..."

5. The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana by Oliver Perry Hay (1892)
"This is another of the species reported to Dr. Goode (34, '73, 184) as furnishing to its young in times of danger a retreat down its throat. Genus SISTRURUS ..."

6. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"... but in one species, constituting the genus Sistrurus, there are nine large shields on the top of the head. Specimens of the ordinary North American ..."

7. Proceedings by Nebraska, Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"Common rattlesnake 354 genus Sistrurus 355 18. Massasauga 355 Population of Nebraska— Cities 78 Counties— ..."

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