Definition of Genus chelifer

1. Noun. A genus of Chelonethida.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chelifer

genus Chamaecyparis
genus Chamaecytisus
genus Chamaedaphne
genus Chamaeleo
genus Chamaeleon
genus Chamaemelum
genus Chara
genus Charadrius
genus Charina
genus Charronia
genus Chateura
genus Chauna
genus Cheilanthes
genus Cheiranthus
genus Chelidonium
genus Chelifer
genus Chelone
genus Chelonia
genus Chelydra
genus Chenopodium
genus Chilomastix
genus Chilomeniscus
genus Chilomycterus
genus Chilopsis
genus Chimaera
genus Chimaphila
genus Chimonanthus
genus Chinchilla
genus Chinchona
genus Chiococca

Literary usage of Genus chelifer

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

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"The younger Hermann, in his excellent work on the apterous insects of Linnaeus, has adopted the genus chelifer of Geoffrey, and has made known several ..."

2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"Judging from his observation of its having claws resembling those of a lobster, it must have been a species of the genus Chelifer Geoff, and Leach, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"... genus Chelifer, ahn, of which I possess Ch. oblongus Say, the thorax is divided by two transverse slightly indented lines into 3 portions, the anterior ..."

4. Excelsior by James Hamilton (1855)
"These constitute the genus Chelifer, and form the connecting link between the Scorpions and the Harvest-men or Shepherd-spiders ..."

5. Life in its lower, intermediate, and higher forms; or, Manifestations of the by Philip Henry Gosse (1857)
"These constitute the genus Chelifer, and form the connecting link between the Scorpions and the Harvest-men or Shepherd- spiders (Phalangium), ..."

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