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Definition of Callorhinus
1. Noun. Fur seals.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Otariidae, Otariidae
Member holonyms: Fur Seal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callorhinus
Literary usage of Callorhinus
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 (1900)
"The Species of Callorhinus, or Northern Fur Seal," by Dr. Jordan and Mr. ...
The generic name Callorhinus is retained as sufficiently distinct from the ..."
2. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"(Substitute for Callorhinus, assumed to be a homonym of ... *Callorhinus alascanus
Jordan and Clark. 1885. Callorhinus ursinus TRUE, Proc. US Nat. ..."
3. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"I will go even further than you, for I think it urgent not only to rigidly prohibit
the taking of the migratory Callorhinus in ..."
4. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1905)
"The species established on the Commander Islands is Callorhinus ursinus, while
that breeding on the Pribilofs is Callorhinus alascanus. ..."
5. Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1871)
"Northern Sea-Bear. BM Phoca ursina, Linn.; Pander fy D'Alton, t. 7. f. 1 (not good).
Otaria (Callorhinus) ursina, Peters, ..."
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