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Definition of Genus Coregonus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes.
Exact synonyms: Coregonus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Coregonidae, Family Coregonidae
Member holonyms: Coregonus Clupeaformis, Lake Whitefish, Cisco, Coregonus Artedi, Lake Herring
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Coregonidae, Family Coregonidae
Member holonyms: Coregonus Clupeaformis, Lake Whitefish, Cisco, Coregonus Artedi, Lake Herring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Coregonus
Literary usage of Genus Coregonus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"GENUS OSMERUS : THE SMELT, Osmerus Viridescens. GENUS THYMALLUS : THE ARCTIC
GRAYLING, Thymallus Signifer. genus Coregonus: THE WHITE FISH, ..."
2. European Animals: Their Geological History and Geographical Distribution by Robert Francis Scharff (1907)
"We must look upon the genus Coregonus as of northern origin. Only one fossil form
has been met with, viz., in the Pleistocene deposits of Sweden, ..."
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