Definition of Genus Crotaphytus

1. Noun. Collared lizards.

Exact synonyms: Crotaphytus
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Member holonyms: Collared Lizard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Crotaphytus

genus Crataegus
genus Crateva
genus Crax
genus Crepis
genus Crescentia
genus Crex
genus Cricetus
genus Crocethia
genus Crocodilus
genus Crocodylus
genus Crocus
genus Crocuta
genus Cronartium
genus Crotalaria
genus Crotalus
genus Crotaphytus (current term)
genus Croton
genus Crotophaga
genus Cryptacanthodes
genus Cryptobranchus
genus Cryptocercus
genus Cryptocoryne
genus Cryptogramma
genus Cryptomeria
genus Cryptoprocta
genus Cryptotermes
genus Cryptotis
genus Ctenocephalides
genus Ctenocephalus
genus Cuculus

Literary usage of Genus Crotaphytus

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

1. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1851)
"Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GIN. CHAR.—Head covered with small and polygonal plates ... Of the genus Crotaphytus, a typical form peculiar to North America, ..."

2. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frédéric Girard, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, John Torrey, James Hall (1853)
"genus Crotaphytus, Holbrook. Gin. CHAR.—Head covered with smail and polygonal plates. The occipital proper, minute. Teeth on the jaws, pterygoids and ..."

3. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club by New England zoological club, Cambridge (1900)
"Mann notes that in its habits and actions this species is very similar to the species of our American genus Crotaphytus. Agama stellio (Linne'). ..."

4. Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Lorenzo Sitgreaves (1853)
"Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GEN. CHAR.—Head short, sub-triangular, rounded in front, and covered with small plates; no palatine teeth; tongue obtuse in ..."

5. An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a by Howard Stansbury (1855)
"A series of individuals of different sizes were collected by Capt. Stansbury in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Genus CROTAPHYTUS, Holbrook. GKS. CHAR. ..."

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