Definition of Lachnolaimus

1. Noun. A genus of Labridae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Lachnolaimus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Labridae, Labridae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lachnolaimus

Lacedaemonians
Lacedemonian
Lacedemonians
Lacedæmonia
Lacedæmonian
Lacedæmonians
Lacerta
Lacerta agilis
Lacerta viridis
Lacertidae
Lacey
Lachaise
Lachesis
Lachlan
Lachman test
Lachnolaimus (current term)
Lachnolaimus maximus
Lachryma Christi
Laclauian
Laconia
Laconian
Laconians
Lactaid
Lactarius
Lactarius delicioso
Lactobacillus bifidus
Lactobacillus bifidus pennsylvanicus
Lactobacillus brevis
Lactobacillus buchneri
Lactobacillus bulgaricus

Literary usage of Lachnolaimus

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

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1862)
"Adult. Old Collection. 6, «. Half-grown. Dalmatia. 3. Lachnolaimus. ... Lachnolaimus suillus, Cuc. fy Pal. xiii. p. ..."

2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus Lachnolaimus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hog-fishes. Body much compressed; back elevated and compressed to a sharp edge; snout sharp; profile steep; ..."

3. The Technologist (1861)
"This, with some trifling differences in the dentition, forms tlieir class character. (C. & V., Hist. Natur, des Poissons, vol. il) The Lachnolaimus caninus, ..."

4. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"Lachnolaimus Cuvier, 257; type Lachnolaimus SUILLUS Cuvier. SUILLUS of Catesby. Monotypic. Anampses Cuvier, 259; type ANAMPSES CUVIERI Quoy & Gaimard. ..."

5. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"fishes), to the genus Lachnolaimus (Cuvier and Valenciennes), and is known to science as Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum). It is essentially a West Indian ..."

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