Definition of Archosargus

1. Noun. A genus of Sparidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Archosargus

Archilochian
Archilochos
Archilochus
Archilochus colubris
Archimedean
Archimedean property
Archimedean solid
Archimedean solids
Archimedean spiral
Archimedean spirals
Archimedes
Archimedes' principle
Archimedes screw
Archimedes screws
Archite
Archosargus (current term)
Archosargus probatocephalus
Archosargus rhomboidalis
Archosauria
Archæan
Archæozoic
Arcidae
Arctic
Arctic Archipelago
Arctic Circle
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Sea
Arctic Skuas
Arctic Zone
Arctic char

Literary usage of Archosargus

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

1. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others by James Alexander Henshall (1903)
"THE SHEEPSHEAD (Archosargus probatocephalus) In his account of the fishes in the vicinity of New York, in 1788, Schopf, a surgeon in the British army, ..."

2. The Big Game Fishes of the United States: A Collection of Critical Essays by Charles Burton Martin, Viktor Aleksandrovich Maksunov, Charles Frederick Holder, Amiya Chandra Chakravarty, David Malet Armstrong (1903)
"... to the sub- genus Archosargus, and is known to science as Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum). Its head is large and high, the body deep, ..."

3. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... bluish with a submedian gilt band and a gilt edge; caudal yellow, faintly barred; anal bluish, with a median yellowish band. GENUS Archosargus GILL The ..."

4. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"... to the sub- genus Archosargus, and is known to science as Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum). Its head is large and high, the body deep, ..."

5. A Check-list of the Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"308, 1792, Brazil; on a figure by Prince Maurice. 1763. Archosargus ... Archosargus tridens (Poey). Cuba. Sarg it u tridens Poey, Enumeratio, 57, 1875, ..."

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