Definition of Myliobatidae

1. Noun. Eagle rays.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Myliobatidae

Mycroft Holmes
Mycrosporidia
Mycteria
Mycteria americana
Mycteroperca
Mycteroperca bonaci
Myctophidae
Myerscough
Myfanwy
Mykolaiv
Mykonos
Mylanta
Mylar
Myles
Myles Standish
Myliobatidae (current term)
Mylitta
Mylodontidae
Mymensingh District
Myocastor
Myocastor coypus
Myomorpha
Myopus
Myosotis
Myosotis scorpiodes
Myosotis sylvatica
Myotis
Myotis leucifugus
Myotis velifer
Myr

Literary usage of Myliobatidae

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

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"... greatly produced, extending over the tail and forming a rayed wreath-like projection over the snout, is known from the Lower Cretaceous. Myliobatidae. ..."

2. Kansas; a Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1912)
"Under selachians are included the myliobatidae, or upper Cretaceous selachians; ... The living members of the myliobatidae are the sea devils, many of which ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"The specimen proves that the peculiarly effective disposition characteristic of the living Myliobatidae had not been assumed, ..."

4. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"Myliobatidae. 11 tiller and Henle. Eagle-rays. Trunk much depressed, forming a broad disk with the very large pectoral fins, which are interrupted at the ..."

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