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Definition of Genus scaphiopus
1. Noun. New World spadefoot toads.
Generic synonyms: Amphibian Genus
Group relationships: Family Pelobatidae, Pelobatidae
Member holonyms: Scaphiopus Hammondii, Western Spadefoot, Scaphiopus Multiplicatus, Southern Spadefoot, Plains Spadefoot, Scaphiopus Bombifrons
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Scaphiopus
Literary usage of Genus scaphiopus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"Thus the ranges of the species of the American genus Scaphiopus, the spade-foot
toads, are given in a recent check-list as follows: Scaphiopus couchii, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"The genus Scaphiopus is not an undeveloped form of Pelobates as to its auditory
organs, for when the latter is identical with the former in this respect, ..."
3. The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1886)
"The genus Scaphiopus is not an undeveloped form of Pelobates as to its auditory
organs, for, when the latter is identical with the former in this respect, ..."
4. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"It is found wholly in moist spots in timber laud, where it feeds upon the numerous
insects found among dead leaves. Genus SCAPHIOPUS. Scaphiopus solitarius. ..."
5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"One genus, Scaphiopus, with four species, occurs in North America. The spade-foot
toads are burrowing AMPHIBIA, and usually have thick hind feet provided ..."
6. Upland and meadow: a Poaetquissings chronicle by Charles Conrad Abbott (1886)
"Holbrook, in his diagnosis of the genus Scaphiopus, refers to the " sub-gular
vocal sac " of the males; but it must not be inferred that the females are ..."
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