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Definition of Cryptobranchidae
1. Noun. Large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Family
Group relationships: Caudata, Order Caudata, Order Urodella, Urodella
Member holonyms: Cryptobranchus, Genus Cryptobranchus, Genus Megalobatrachus, Megalobatrachus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptobranchidae
Literary usage of Cryptobranchidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles by Leonhard Stejneger, Thomas Barbour (1917)
"Cryptobranchidae (FAMILY) Cryptobranchus (GENUS) LEUCKART, Isis, 1821, Lit.
Anz., p. 259 TYPE: gigantea — alleganiensis Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ..."
2. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"The Cryptobranchidae 8 include the so-called "hellbender" of the Ohio valley and
south.4 It is a very voracious scavenger of the water, and bites the hook ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"... but it has not yet been prepared perfectly free from its lower homologues.
It forms a double salt with platinum. Cryptobranchidae ..."
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