Definition of Genus Hyperoodon

1. Noun. Bottle-nosed whales.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Hyperoodon

genus Hygrotrama
genus Hyla
genus Hylactophryne
genus Hylobates
genus Hylocereus
genus Hylocichla
genus Hylophylax
genus Hymenaea
genus Hymenanthera
genus Hymenophyllum
genus Hynerpeton
genus Hyoscyamus
genus Hypentelium
genus Hypericum
genus Hyperoglyphe
genus Hyperoodon (current term)
genus Hyphantria
genus Hypochaeris
genus Hypochoeris
genus Hypoderma
genus Hypopachus
genus Hypopitys
genus Hypoxis
genus Hypsiglena
genus Hypsiprymnodon
genus Hyracotherium
genus Hyssopus
genus Iberis
genus Ibero-mesornis
genus Ibis

Literary usage of Genus Hyperoodon

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

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"On the Whales of the genus Hyperoodon. By WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER, LL.D., FRS, PZS, &c. [Received November 28, 1882.] Apart from that indicated by the ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... of the parent before it is born, and that the young appear to attain their full size very rapidly, is probably equally true in the genus Hyperoodon. ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"... (Sowerby) has been referred to this genus [Hyperoodon~\ ; but the form of the head and the position of the fins, the teeth and the form of the skull, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"In existing genera all the mandibular teeth are rudimentary, with the exception of one or occasionally two pairs. Genus HYPEROODON ..."

5. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"This is the first and only record of the genus in the northwestern Atlantic.—See True, Science, Vol. II, 1883, p. 54o. genus Hyperoodon Lacepede, Histoire ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"... genus Hyperoodon. From the foregoing I conclude the proper name of this whale to be Hyperoodon ..."

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