cultellus
Americannoun
plural
cultelliEtymology
Origin of cultellus
1895–1900; < Latin: diminutive of culter knife, colter; for formation, castellum
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The word is derived from the Fr. coutelas, or coutelace, a form of coutel, modern couteau, a knife, from Lat. cultellus, diminutive of culter, a ploughshare, or cutting instrument.
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T. b. pervagus occupies an area geographically intermediate between T. b. aureus to the west and T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus to the east and has some characters in common with these subspecies.
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T. b. pervagus resembles T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus in color, the presence of a V-shaped interpterygoid space, and a narrow basioccipital.
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Nevertheless, the similarities between T. b. pervagus and T. b. cultellus and T. b. internatus suggest that T. b. pervagus was originally derived from the more eastern stock.
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T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus probably intergrade east of the Sangre De Cristo Range in the vicinity of the Colorado-New Mexico boundary.
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