Describer Synonyms

To explain these, two alternatives are offered by the describer.

An unmistakable batrachian of this order, referred by its describer to Palaeobatrachus, a determination which is only provisional, has been discovered in the Kimmeridgian of the Sierra del Montsech, Catalonia (25), in a therefore somewhat older formation than the Wealden Caudata Hylaeobatrachus.

If he must be classed, he was before all things a describer - a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature.

First referring it to the genus Caprimulgus, its original describer soon saw that it was no true goatsucker.