Definition of Genus Menticirrhus

1. Noun. Kingfishes; whiting.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Menticirrhus

genus Melilotus
genus Melissa
genus Mellivora
genus Melocactus
genus Melogale
genus Melolontha
genus Melophagus
genus Melopsittacus
genus Melospiza
genus Melursus
genus Menippe
genus Meniscium
genus Menopon
genus Mentha
genus Menticirrhus (current term)
genus Mentzelia
genus Menura
genus Menyanthes
genus Menziesia
genus Mephitis
genus Mercenaria
genus Mercurialis
genus Mergus
genus Meriones
genus Merlangus
genus Merluccius
genus Merops
genus Mertensia
genus Meryta

Literary usage of Genus Menticirrhus

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

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... continuous streaks along rows of scales; usually some of these coalesce to form 2 dark streaks concurrent with the back. genus Menticirrhus GILL The ..."

2. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"Genus MENTICIRRHUS Gill. Whitings. Small American shore fishes, most frequently found on sandy bottom ..."

3. The Fishes of North Carolina by Hugh McCormick Smith (1907)
"Genus MENTICIRRHUS Gill. Whitings. Small American shore fishes, most frequently found on sandy bottom; characterized by elongate, little compressed body; ..."

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